I have prepared a patch to put (single) quotes around chr values in tables as printed by the Mserver. E.g.: MonetDB>'a'.print(); [ 'a' ] Previously this resulted in MonetDB>'a'.print(); [ a ] In addition to adding quotes, my patch also escapes control characters: MonetDB>chr(10).print(); [ '\012' ] Previously: MonetDB>chr(10).print(); [ ] This also shows a very important reason for wanting to make this change. Another example which is possibly even worse is chr(0).print(). I ran the pathfinder and sql tests, and only in pathfinder there are 2 tests that are affected (I will appprove them when I check the patch in). This message is a heads up. If you think you might be affected (JDBC, Perl, others?), then maybe you will need to make changes once I check this in. The Mapi library already deals with single-quoted values. -- Sjoerd Mullender