vwu98034@xxxxxxxxx writes: > When I try to access PG from PC command prompt with the psql command, I get the following error message: > psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly > This probably mean the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. > This time a error message shows up in the PG log file: "FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=011D0000): Invalid argument" If you're running PG on Windows, this is a known problem that was fixed some time ago ... > As I can tell, the PG log file doesn't tell the whole story. The version of PG is 8.0. ... but not *that* long ago. 8.0.x on Windows was desupported more than three years ago, and as of last year is out of support on all platforms. Please update to a current version. http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865 regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general