Oops! tonylausin@xxxxxxxxx ("Tony Lausin") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Ahh. I see the point more clearly now. Perhaps the best strategy for > me is to press on with Postgres until the project is at a profitable > enough stage to merit a migration to Oracle - should Postgres become > an issue. I feel more confident about being able to migrate from > Postgres than from MySQL. I am financing this myself. hence the > apprehension about the cost. Is there another contender I should think > about. The other plausible option as a "possibly inexpensive" alternative to PostgreSQL or MySQL(tm) is Firebird, which used to be Borland Interbase... They lost a couple of developers to MySQL AB, which may present some problems, eventually... -- output = reverse("ofni.secnanifxunil" "@" "enworbbc") http://linuxfinances.info/info/wp.html "Tooltips are the proof that icons don't work." -- Stefaan A. Eeckels