One of the developers deleted a directory from postgress's data directory. (He mistakenly believed this was "just like mysql" where he could drop the database like that) At any rate, now postgres just dies when it's attempting to start, how can I fix this? I've never done anything this stupid so I have no idea where to look? Thank you so much for the help Sincerely, Will LaShell -- ----------------------------------------------- "Doh.. STUPID STUPID STUPID" --an excerpt taken from every developers cvs commit message at some point -----------------------------------------------