I run these commands automatically every night: vacuumdb -a -z -U postgres reindexdb -a -U postgres Is there a way to temporarily disable all other connections to Postgres until these operations are complete? The operations take a while (about 20 minutes) and connections really pile up, sometimes crashing the server. Thanks, CSN __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend