You might be thinking about the dtml-sqlvar, right? the sqlvar is just there to help you create a long text string, the SQL statement. Use the syntax of strings or int however it suits you to produce the SQL text string you need. Cheers, Peter From: "Grant Murphy" <Grant.Murphy@eskom.co.za> Hi I'm trying to insert or select timestamp and bool types into a postgres database and I'm using PoPyDA. Zope seem to only have types string, text and int, unless I missed something somewhere. Please help as I'm a newbie? Thanks Grant _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )