On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:55:12AM -0700, Jeff Lanzarotta wrote: > OK, thanks. I figured the server would at some point in time clear the > connection up, my question now is when does that happen? Any idea how > long the connection sit around before the server cleans it up? Someone > else said possibly an hour... Depends on yuor OS - when the TCP connection times out, PostgreSQL will clean up and terminate the backup. //Magnus