Hi chaps, I've just changed my startup scripts to use the linux one supplied in contrib. I noticed this uses the "-m fast" argument for start and stop. Before I setup the scripts I was using "-m smart" to make sure all queries were finished before shutting dowm on all but my WAL slave. I was going to change these to -m smart just to be safe, however I just wanted to check if there was any reason not to do this? Thanks Glyn __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster