Dear gurus, I'm sure someone knows immediately how to translate this mysql to postgresql: SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(dbmail_messageblks.messageblk ORDER BY dbmail_messageblks.is_header DESC SEPARATOR '') FROM dbmail_messages JOIN dbmail_messageblks ON (dbmail_messages.physmessage_id=dbmail_messageblks.physmessage_id) WHERE dbmail_messages.message_idnr='${MSG_UID}' GROUP BY dbmail_messages.message_idnr" It should simply return the whole message which can be truncated to pieces into dbmail_messageblks and return it as a single entity. I found this for mysql and would like to rewrite the shell script to postgresql, but am stuck at this select. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin