Hi, out there! Here is my problem: I'm building an intranet/internet application for publishing materials (photo & text databeses) and for this purpose I need a reliable, fast and unexpensive database backend. In this order I need some advice regarding PostgreSQL. Here are some technical information/requirements: - application logic written in Java (JSP, servlets & JavaBeans on Tomcat, Resin or Enhydra); - large indexable text fields (somewhere between 10KB and 200KB, maybe double if I will use Unicode); - I need to use Easter European (not cyrillic!) letters so support for Latin 2 character set or Unicode is a must; - possibility to store image BLOBs up to 100KB in size; - as I understood, PostgreSQL is an Object-Relational DBMS so is it possible to store Java objects directly (with the possibility to search fast their textual properties/fields) ? Or is there a way to store and search XML/DOM/SAX formatted date directly or using some kind of special API? Thanks in advance, Szabi Borbely