Helo, I'm using postgresql 7.1, with suse linux 7.1 on i386. I'm programming in python and I'm going to store many, long (approx. 600 bytes) python-variables in a postgres database. There is a way to convert python-variables into string (either binary or text) format to make them possible to be stored in files or databases. The string converted from the variable is full of characters that are treated specially by the query-language, so I always get error messages if I try them to store with the INSERT INTO command. To save them to files, COPY them one-by-one to a temporary table then move them to the appropriate table and row, delete the file, drop the table seems to be a very long procedure. Is there a simple and smart way to store such strings in databases? I could not find solution for such a problem in the documentation. Gergely BORGULYA ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])