Hello, I spend today some hours to nail down and insert problem into our database with DBI like: my $rc = $my_dbh->do($my_sqlstatement); which returns 1 in $rc (which the following flow in our script took as an error). If one fired up the same string in $my_sqlstatement with pgsql the result was always INSERT 0 1 At the end of the day I watched with strace the communication on the network between the DBI client and the PG server: ... 13576 sendto(3, "6f7374656e20676573636872696562656e3a303a0a726561645f656469666163745f66696c65733a3a6d61696e20456e646520616d2031372e30322e3230323020756d2031363a30303a3234205568720a6c6f67206265656e6465742c206a65747a74207769726420696e7365727420646573206c6f677320696e206163715f7661726461746120766572737563687420286e757220696d207472616365207369636874626172290a', \n 1)\0", 359, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 359 13576 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR}], 1, 4294967295) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}]) 13576 recvfrom(3, "C\0\0\0\17INSERT 0 1\0Z\0\0\0\5I", 32768, 0, NULL, NULL) = 22 13576 write(4, " <- do= ( 1 ) [1 items] at read_edifact_files.pl line 8831\n", 62) = 62 13576 write(4, " -> $DBI::errstr (&) FETCH from lasth=HASH\n", 46) = 46 13576 write(4, " <- $DBI::errstr= undef\n", 27) = 27 ... i.e. the response on the network was (always) also 'INSERT 0 1' and DBI misinterprets this as an error condition with 'undef' $DBI::errstr string. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub