I am running PostgresSQL 8.3.8 on windows XP-64Bit. I am using psql client from the PostgreSQL installation and not the Cygwin client. My issue is that the command line argument "-c command" is not recognized. For example, if I run (from Cygwin) psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d $database postgres -c "select count(*) from $table_name" I receive the following output: psql: warning: extra command-line argument "-c" ignored psql: warning: extra command-line argument "select count(*) from $table_name" ignored Welcome to psql 8.3.8, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit Warning: Console code page (437) differs from Windows code page (1252) 8-bit characters might not work correctly. See psql reference page "Notes for Windows users" for details. End output. If I put the query in a file and run the file from the command line, then it works fine. Furthermore, it appears I have all the necessary priviledges since I can create/delete/modify tables in the database - as long as the sql code is in a script file. I will add that this code runs on an XP-32Bit 8.2 install and I recently installed PostgreSQL on the XP-64Bit machine. Thanks for any insight you can provide. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general