On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:38:21AM -0600, Curt Schwaderer wrote: > ERROR: plppython: function "send_ctl_msg" failed > DETAIL: exceptions.KeyError: 'cfgCmd' You're getting bit by case folding of identifiers. You created the column as: > cfgCmd VARCHAR(16), -- ENS configuration control command Since you didn't quote the identifier it's folded to lowercase, so when you refer to it as > ens_cmd = rv[0]["cfgCmd"] you get a KeyError exception. Try using rv[0]["cfgcmd"]. You might want to read the documentation about quoted identifiers: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS -- Michael Fuhr