> I had to kill a vacuum in the middle with -9. I shut down and > restarted the postgres server several times after that but I am unable > to connect to the db that I was initially running vacuum on > I'm doing "psql dbname" and it hangs for a while. I'm still > waiting. Any ideas? "Kill -9" is distinctly not recommended. It is possible that you have corrupted the database by issuing "kill -9." You might want to look into what backups you have... -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','gmail.com'). http://linuxdatabases.info/info/nonrdbms.html "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."