Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at> 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