Hello, Here is what I see in log file: WARNING: terminating connection because of crash of another server process DETAIL: The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the curre nt transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and po ssibly corrupted shared memory. HINT: In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat yo ur command. FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing LOG: database system was interrupted at 2005-12-10 23:28:04 CET FATAL: the database system is starting up (and the last line repeats on each connection generated by website backend). I'm almost sure that it is caused by httpd, but it is not the main problem ATM. My question is about the last line. Does those connections slow down database startup process? Now it looks like that they do, because when I shutdown backend then database starts immediatel, but I'm not sure, so I would like to hear clear answer :-) Second question: what is the fastest way to detect database start up process using JDBC? Thanks for help. -- Best regards, Grzegorz mailto:goliatus@xxxxxxxxxx