Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Possibly create a timeout for psql. pg_dump, pg_restore and other clients. > If they can not connect to a certain host within a certain period it will > quit with an error. I have psql's still running for 6 days from crontab > that could not connect to a bogus IP address. There is something wrong with your system, not with Postgres. Any reasonable TCP stack will time out within circa 1 minute if no response. Example (sss is a machine on my LAN that's not presently up): $ time psql -h sss psql: PQconnectPoll() -- connect() failed: Connection timed out Is the postmaster running (with -i) at 'sss' and accepting connections on TCP/IP port '5432'? real 1m14.27s user 0m0.01s sys 0m0.01s $ This particular timeout length is probably specific to HPUX, but the point is that you have a local system problem. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster