Nitin Verma wrote: > Thanx Tom, anyway we are moving to 8.1.0 soon. > > Leaving that moving all our client to newer release will take sometime. I > hope you know how it works in a product. Till that time we need to release a > patch that recovers from this condition. > > Said that, do we have some advice or workarounds? Please read http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support