Forgot to mention: you might also want to think about setting up a separate superuser account for the stats monitor. Unlike Unix, Postgres doesn't think there can be only one superuser. The advantage of this is (a) you can give it a separate password from what you normally use, and (b) you can choose some less obvious name than "postgres". regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings