> Besides what Tom says, '0' is a string, not an integer. PG takes > it, but it's a bad habit. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. I wouldn't know. I'm merely the unfortunate soul chosen to convert this from MySQL to Postgres. :-/ I've been working on it for a week now. I've got to say that it pains me to know that there is apparently no open standard in use for importing/exporting data from one db to another. XML would do the job, wouldn't it? If I'm wrong, I sure would like to hear about it. Jim C.