Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> writes:
> Was the 3,000 transactions per minute helpful? What other evidence should I
> be looking for?
Did you try generating a test case using a long sleep() as a replacement
for the archive_command script? If there is a PG bug here it shouldn't
be that hard to expose it in a simple test case. I'm up to my armpits
in other stuff and don't have time to try it myself...
regards, tom lane