Paul Lambert wrote: > Looks like my bad - I created the table initially through pgAdminIII and > it appears I selected the wrong character varying from the dropdown list. > > CREATE TABLE tester > ( > test_varchar character varying[], > test_text text > ) > > If I change it to character varying(20) it works fine. Yeah, what you chose is an array of varchar. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.