To yank this thread in yet another direction: The question of 8.3 vs 8.4 brings up a very irritating issue we have with one client. Originally, we had installed PostgreSQL 8.3 on his system. There is a program we occasionally have to use that requires us to use "mstsc /console" to connect to his computer. When we logged off after connecting that way, PostgreSQL would crash. The log file would report error 128, which does not help us very much. A search of the Internet found one person who had wrestled with the same problem. We were able to contact him. He said that the problem went away when he upgraded to 8.4. So, we upgraded our customer to 8.4 (and ourselves, while we were at it). The problem still exists. Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone have any ideas on how to avoid it? Thank you very much! RobR -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general