Bob Pawley wrote: > I am on Windows and am running an anti virus program. But I was running > the same programs on Windows before without this problem. Well, as long as you're happy you've ruled out your anti-virus, and you're running 8.3.8 then you'll want to monitor it and next time it happens record: 1. What connections are already open 2. Whether PG receives any connection attempt at all 3. Whether your a/v+firewall sees the connection attempt Items 2,3 will require you to check that you are logging the right information (PG can log connection and disconnection). You'll need to consult your a/v manuals for details on its logging. If PostgreSQL isn't accepting any connections then you can't connect and list what others it has. You should be able to see each in Task Manager, but probably something like sysinternals' "process explorer" will be more useful. Check how many connections and whether any are unreasonably large, hung etc. Ideally the developers would probably want to see output from a debugger, but I'm guessing that's not straightforward on Windows. It's possible there is a corner case that the fix in 8.3.8 doesn't handle and it would be useful to know. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general