On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:22:49PM -0700, Bob Pawley wrote: > What is the reason for redefining type_ as device_type ??? The function doesn't redefine type_; it selects the value of the type_ column into a local variable named device_type to avoid querying library.devices more than once. That local variable must have a different name to avoid syntax errors that would result from the ambiguity of having a variable and a table column with the same name. -- Michael Fuhr