Hi there folks, I am a new user with Linux and Postgres, and I am investigating the possibilities of using Postgres as my main dB for Data Acquisition applications over a network. I would like the following help (if possible): 1) A good reference book for ecpg & libpq 2) what the format of the date & datetime fields must be i.e. if I create a table such as 'create table daten(date1 date, date2 datetime)' what is the format of the date and a=date time. I have tried all of the formats mentioned in the .html Programmers manuals, but none seem to work. Thank for the help! _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com