Russ Brown wrote: >Apologies for going slighly off topic, but isn't this basically how >MySQL does replication? >Or am I missing something? in the immortal words of mothers everywhere: "if all your friends jumped off of a bridge, would you do it too?" there are a lot of things that are "good enough" for mysql. richard ---------------------------(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