On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:37:23PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > It returns "UPDATE 2" which is what I expect from the data. > > > However, the rows in question are not actually updated. > > > > That seems very strange. Could you perhaps have a BEFORE UPDATE trigger > > that's changing the values back to null again? > I do but I drop that one in the script before doing the > above update. I may have an old one hanging around, though, > I'll double-check. I was missing a schema qualification in a drop statement, hence the culprit trigger function wasn't dropped properly. Sometimes a hint helps. Thanks Tom, Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346