I'm putting together a small database to track communication with our customers as we make some changes to our service. I want the database to store a diary of all the email we have with each customer on this subject, and I'm using BLOBs to store that information. I also want to have a timestamp for the last change date of this email diary, so we can easily see which customers we haven't talked to lately. Normally I'd do this with a trigger, but I'm not sure how to do that in this case. Once the diary is created, the oid for it doesn't change, so I can't trigger on the diary field in the table. The actual contents of the BLOB are in a system table and I can't trigger on them. Anyone have any ideas? Should I just depend on the client to update the timestamp? That certainly wouldn't be hard, but it feels sloppy. Thanks for any help you can provide. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly