Hello, I have a little problem with connecting a Java standalone application and Postgresql 6.3.2. In fact it doesn't connect. Before sending you the error output, is anybody can tell me if I have to declare a user/password in the h_dba_conf if I want this to work? I ask this because I can't test this now. Could you give me the way? I use the JDBC of the distribution, so normally it works... Many thanks. PS: I heard some news about PostgreSQL crash. For me, I use Postgres from the beginning (it was Postgres95) and I never see a backend crash. Ok I don't do many things with my databases and there are small but never one problem... All my gratitude to the contributors.