On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:19:30PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > It is possible that you have corrupted the database by issuing "kill > -9." If that's true, then WAL doesn't work. kill -9 shouldn't be any more harmful than a machine crash. That is to say, it's very bad news, but it shouldn't actually corrupt the database. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now. --J.D. Baldwin