Hi, Problem Description: We need to insert binary data to tables and retrieve the Same-(data type is bytea). We are using PQExecParams for inserting and retrieving Data. Table contains other than binary data also. When we tried to fetch the integer data (type-int2) We are not able to get anything from that result set(alws value is zero).but Pqexec returns the desired value Questions: 1)how can we get the integer value from the result set which is got from executing PQexecParams; (the sample code is given below) 2)if it's not possible then how can we get the BINARY values using Pqexec Here is the code snapshot: string query="select intval from dummy where intval=7;"; res1=PQexecParams(conn,query.c_str(),0,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,1); for(unsigned char i=0;i<4;i++) { printf("%d \n",(PQgetvalue(res1,0,0)[i])); //prints 0000 here } cout<<"value from pqexec params ****"<<atoi(PQgetvalue(res1,0,0))<<endl; //prints 0 here cout<<"using pqexec ***"<<endl; res1=PQexec(conn,"select intval from dummy where intval=7;");//prints 7 below. cout<<"value from pqexec **"<<atoi(PQgetvalue(res1,0,0))<<endl; Prasanna. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match