Incidentally, I seem to recall that there is a way of using greater than 2GB of memory on 32-bit XP; It's a matter of turning on the so-called "3gb switch": http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx Regards, Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general