Garry Saddington <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Oh, and the problem has been intermittant. Another > thing that happened this morning is that Postgres had today as 18/06/2008 > when in fact it was 19/06/2008 and the OS reported this correctly. Two theories about that one: 1. Postgres' timezone setting is far away from where you are. 2. You were in a transaction that had been open since yesterday. now() and related functions show time of transaction start. #2 is interesting since forgetting to commit an open transaction might also explain the "data loss" complaint. regards, tom lane