Anony Mous <A.Mous@shaw.ca> writes: > Thanks, but I do want to set the system time. You cannot do that from within Postgres, because it requires root privileges. > I'd like to do it without having to first change > the system time, and then re-start the postmaster. Who said anything about restarting the postmaster? Just set the system time (eg, with date(1)). regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)