=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... However, if Access crashes or if the dial-up connections goes down > the connection is not closed explicitly and the server side backend > stays alive forever - even if the Windows client is rebooted.
It should time out and exit after an hour or so, I'd expect. It sounds like the TCP_KEEPALIVE code on the server side is failing to detect loss of connection. What is the server-side platform, exactly? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster