Hi, Today i discovered that when my host webserver has some issue with PostgreSQL database, my code displays the following error message : *"Warning*: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect<http://www.immense.sk/function.pg-connect>]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host "pgsql.exohosting.sk" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? in */www/xxxx.php* on line yyy." I would like instead of that, to display my own error message... in fact, i would like to display something like : "We are sorry but temporary we have some technical issues. Please try again later". how can i do that ? i tried to do : $conn = pg_connect($conn_string); if ($conn) // check if database is online { // close database connection pg_close($conn); } else { // impossible to connect to DB die('Maintenance in progress... Try later.'); } but it still display the previous warning message. thanks for your help. -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Apache 2.0.58 PHP 5