On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:11:43PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote: > I am however unable to do the same successfully (the Java code simply > hangs, probably as a result of the second psql not getting the input to > it) from Java code using objects of ProcessBuilder and Process. Why don't you use the JDBC driver? You wouldn't have to worry about file descriptors blocking at all that way. Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general