i get a weird behavior on sql except. i'm have attached the except.* files from: cat except.sql | mclient -lsql > except.txt notice the tuple: [ 425, 719, "people", "person", NULL ] is returned in all 3 queries; shouldn't except prevent this? any help? i'm runnig on: MonetDB server v5.6.0 (32-bit), based on kernel v1.24.0 (32-bit oids) Copyright (c) 1993-2008 CWI, all rights reserved Visit http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ for further information Configured for prefix: /usr/local Libraries: libpcre: 7.9 2009-04-11 (compiled with 7.9) openssl: OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009 (compiled with OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009) Compiled by: root@redrawn Compilation: gcc -O2 -std=c99 Linking : /usr/bin/ld thanx, lazaros. -- http://www.ics.forth.gr/~koromil