Hi, I'm passing a tablename and two columnnames into a function so that I can SELECT Records in a FOR LOOP using 'fixed' field names. Using the passed params I construct the create table command and then alter the names of two columns. When I 'build' the function and then run my query to use the function w/ a different offset it works the first time. The first time ONLY. But actually it doesn't work, it just doesn't error the first run. Subsequent runs tell me that relation ######## doesn't exist, at the FOR...LOOP line, after ALTERing the table. I build the string and it's good: CREATE TABLE temp_gentokenstable AS SELECT businessid, publicname FROM businesscontact ORDER BY businessid OFFSET 200000 LIMIT 10000 ; I'm forced to use v7.4. If this is a known error, can I (with the version ; ^) ) get around it? Ultimately I need to FOR..LOOP through through records and the table and cols will change. Any suggestions??? THANKS! -- Ralph _________________________ |