On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Napolean Periathambi <Napolean.Periathambi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you for your advice Scott, but it will take a while to convert the programs to 8.3.3 version. > > Is there any permission related or bugs that you can point me to that would cause such behavior. There was some issue with fragmented memory that kept postgresql from actually restarting. Not sure what else there would be. I'd read the release notes for 8.1,8.2,8.3 and see what they say. I'm no expert on the windows pgsql port.