Like Jonathan pointed out, looks like a permission issue. We see these things show up on Windows boxes quite often when a virus checker / spyware checker kicks in and does something stupid like lock a file that postgresql needs to have exclusive access to. Simple answer there is to put postgresql on it's own machine with no spyware detection / anti-virus software on it, or more complexly, tell it to ignore the directories where postgresql lives. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings