I've read many postings of people having this same problem, which I am now having since I've updated to LinuxPPC R5. At this point I've compiled a completely NEW database from scratch (with no problems) and, following right along in the install docs, run %initdb, %createdb, %psql (and then the "select datetime 'now';" query), and finally %destroydb, which produces the error ERROR: typeidTypeRelid: Invalid type - oid = 0 Has there been any patch or work-around yet? (David, I saw you had submitted a Bug report). -- M@