Hello. What is the recommended method of disconnecting all users while a database is vacuumed and backed up? I have tried a stop/start cycle but this doesn't work. The only method that I have found so far that does work is to kill -9 every postgresql process but this sounds way too heavy handed. Cheers and thanks, Stephen Davies ======================================================================== Stephen Davies Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adelaide, South Australia. Voice: 08-8177 1595 Computing & Network solutions. Fax: 08-8177 0133 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster