Hi, Did you stop the postmaster with an SIGKILL ??? Just go into temp directory and delete file .s.PGSQL.5432 After try to restart postmaster. PostgreSQL check this file in order to know if an another postmaster is running, so if you kill postmaster, it dosen't delete this file. Cheers, PEJAC Pascal ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly