On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:23:46PM -0500, Skriloff, Nicholas wrote: > I installed 8.1 in windows XP SP2 in C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\ > --the default-, but not as a service, and would like to find some > helpful bat files for things like starting and stopping the server. Is > there a place I can get some helpful windows bat files? I think you can use pg_ctl, like you can on unix. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461