figuring I'd try out getting into the backend using postgres, to see if I can 'bypass' some of the errors on those corrupted database, I'm wondering if there is any way of taking what a 'select * from <table>' outputs: 1: userid = "cibc001154" (typeid = 1043, len = -1, typmod = 36, byval = f) 2: passwd = "INVALID" (typeid = 1043, len = -1, typmod = 36, byval = f) 3: acct_type = "3" (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) ---- and making it useful? some way of using a simple postgres command to dump the corrupted tables one by one? thoughts? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org