On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:25, Csaba Nagy wrote: > I executed what you suggest below [snip] Ok... it looks like the postgres version is not what I expected and reported in the first mail, but: test03=> select version(); version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.1.0 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.0.3 20051023 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-3) I'm not sure how that got on that box... but I wonder if the version is relevant ? Cheers, Csaba.