Ah, you're right. Thanks Hannu, that's a good solution. Hannu Krosing wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 16:28 -0400, Beaver, John E wrote: ...I know that the query used here could have been a COPY statement, which I assume would be better-behaved, but I'm more concerned about the case in which the query is more complex.COPY can copy out results of a SELECT query as well. -- John E. Beaver Bioinformatics Developer Harvard Medical School |