Hi Tom, > I wonder whether the OP is doing > something weird like launching the server as a subprocess of his login > shell. I don't understand what you mean here. What is OP? > Another possibility (if the source is a really big database) is that > the copy operation is actually still going on. I'd make real sure the > old session is gone before trying to manually remove the allegedly-dead > subdirectory. My database is really not very big. Usually, cloning of my database gets completed within 5 minutes. So, I'm very sure the database clone was stuck in the middle. Even I've waited for almost a day to confirm that copy operation would run successfully to completion but in vain. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin