Thank you Tom, > That sounds like your unspecified "remote client" has got some issues, > but you've not provided any details that would let anyone else figure > it out. The referred client is a Windows psql 8.2.4 utility. This client is running as part of a Windows PostgreSQL 8.2.4 server where we are making this tests against the SUSE Postgresql 8.2.4 server. But the problem first was reported by users of our Visual Basic applications. After debuging the application we realized that all the problems reported with the VB applications were with the "select *" statements. We used the Windows PostgreSQL 8.2.4 server to make the psql "select *" into the SUSE PostgreSQL 8.2.4 server because we suspected that the problem with the VB applications was the ODBC driver but when the psql from the PostgreSQL 8.2.4 Windows server tried to do the same "select *" into the SUSE and it locked, we discard the possibility of a problem with the ODBC driver. Reimer ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings