Hi, I had some problems installing MonetDB-4.8.0 on MS Windows XP: the Duesseldorf sourceforge mirror still serves the installer that misses the pqueue stuff. Removing the wrong version via the Add or Remove Programs left a filled folder CWI in the Program Files folder and also a filled folder in my home folder's Application Data folder called MonetDB. Only after removing these and using the installer from the Paris sourceforge mirror I was freed from a lot of strange messages. All in all, the installer should have its version number upped, I think. Hopefully this will lead to up-to-date mirrors. Also, the installer should notify the user of the old files and folders, giving the choice of backing those up, or overwrite them, or whatever seems best. ===================================================================== Choosing MonetDB SQL Server and MonetDB SQL Client from the Start Menu: # Monet Database Server V4.8.0 # Copyright (c) 1993-2005, CWI. All rights reserved. # Compiled for i686-pc-win32/32bit with 32bit OIDs; dynamically linked. # Visit http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ for further information. MonetDB> copying from the documentation->Front ends->SQL web page (http://monetdb.cwi.nl/TechDocs/FrontEnds/SQL/index.html): CREATE USER "voc" WITH PASSWORD 'voc' NAME 'VOC Explorer' SCHEMA "sys"; results in a dialog window, containing: Mserver.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. AppName: mserver.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: lib_sql_server.dll ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00057cfa If you need to have more info, I'll be happy to try to get it for you... ======================================================================= I don't know whether MonetDB.conf in CWI\MonetDB\etc is used, but it contains the following lines: # Where MonetDB is installed prefix=C:\Documents and Settings\sjoerd\My Documents\src\MonetDB\NT exec_prefix=C:\Documents and Settings\sjoerd\My Documents\src\MonetDB\NT which is not right on my system, of course. ======================================================================== = Met vriendelijke groet, Roger Erens Euroned Systems 0900-3876633 r.erens@eurosys.nl