Sure so long as they decide to go with this solution. It would be greatly appreciated. Have you looked at Ruby which is quite helpful when dealing with PHP Perl CGI and C/C++. I haven't a lot of programming experience, my degree is in BA Adv Mgmt and Financial Acctg and Diploma in IT. I rapidly moved into management and dabble in HTML/Dreamweaver/Javascript but would like to learn postgres php and ruby also. I understand the PL/SQL is similar to that of Oracle's. I took courses in it, but as we all know in real life it is totally different. Thanks Igor I will keep you on file for this -----Original Message----- From: go KEY952866 [mailto:go@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 10:03 PM To: Pamela Subject: Re: FW: Re[2]: [GENERAL] new beginner to postgresql. Looking at it for a church Pamela, i would like to participate in your project (as volunteer). It is interesting for me because i can get more experience in development. I have some working projects in medicine and trading. PHP - Postgres, C++ -postgres, C++ BUILDER - postgres. Thanks for replay. P> I would prefer using linux. I have worked in a limited capacity with both P> linux and windows. The front end I was looking at Ruby/PHP. P> Thanks Igor P> SQ- ledger.org provided by Dann Corbit has a lot of what I would be looking P> for plus more. The financials would require a budgeted amount plus requires P> budgeted minus actual, plus many computations and configurations so that P> they could at consolidated statements for the churches and separate P> financials. This would have to datamodeled properly and allow for there P> particulars.