Hi, all, at http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/ you'll find an add-on function to PostgreSQL 6.5.3 that allows one to do string searches through large objects. It's not a terribly good hack, but it works ;). I do plan on extending this add-on to support regular expressions Real Soon. There are a couple of other software hacks on the same page, including one that lets you retrieve large objects through the AOLserver database driver for PostgreSQL. cheers, --titus -- Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]