adey wrote: > Please let me know if there is a way to determine when the Postmaster > was last restarted? If you have configured your server log to contain timestamps, that is your best bet to look. In any case, the server log will tell when the last shutdown was, so you can at least narrow down the time frame. You can also use pg_controldata to check the time of last change to pg_control (which is changed when the server starts). -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/