I found this in the archives: <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2004-04/msg00005.php> With 8.x, is it still true that with ECPG, it is not possible to use COPY inline - I'd have to write the data to a file, then 'COPY FROM filename' (or use direct libpq API calls instead of ECPG)? Wes