I have not been able to find any documentation on the "associative functions" of php-pgsql (e.g. pg_insert) which supposedly build queries based upon an associative array passed to them. It's not a big deal, I guess, but this would save a few lines of code in various places. I have heard that they were implemented in php 4.2 or so, but were considered experimental, and yet there is no sign of them in the documentation for php5. Like I say, it's not a huge problem, but the "insert" syntax (insert into table set field='value') of MySQL is nicer, and makes for more readable code, when building a query in a loop. Thanks for any pointers, Steve