I was playing around with dbi-link, hoping to get it connected to a teradata database. However, before I dive into that, I figured that I might as well try it out first on a PG Database (on another server) So, it installed dbi-link fine. I did a select on a 30GB table and it froze the Originating database and it ALSO froze the foreign database. Looking into the foreign box's logs, I see for some reason the network just ceased to function? (can't be a coincidence?) Aug 30 15:15:18 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Aug 30 15:15:18 kernel: r8169: eth0: link up I then had to reboot the originating DB/box. Once it got back up, I did a select on a very small table <1MB and the data is returned properly and in timely fashion. Then I tried it on a slightly bigger table --> 50MB and it froze again select * from xmms_b4.log_update where record_update_date_time > '2009-08-30 10:00:00' and record_update_date_time < '2009-08-30 11:00:00' limit 10; NOTICE: SELECT dbi_link.cache_connection( 2 ) at line 12. #\d log_update; Column | Type | Modifiers -------------------------+-----------------------------+-------------------- ---- job_name | text | not null table_name | text | not null from_date | timestamp without time zone | not null to_date | timestamp without time zone | rows_deleted | integer | delete_duration | interval | rows_inserted | integer | insert_duration | interval | rows_updated | integer | update_duration | interval | record_update_date_time | timestamp without time zone | not null default now() After 2 times of this happening, I'm really worried that it will do other nasty things. Help? PS : dbi-link is, for me, ultimately to try if I can get it to connect to teradata to pull some data on a daily basis. I currently use dblink for pg-to-pg connections -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general