Hi, Gordon McMillan: > The *straightforward* way of doing an SQL backend > would be to have (almost) everything in one table, > defined as (int key, binary stuff). That's utterly > useless for querying, since even the DB doesn't > know what it contains. > Right. That wasn't what I had in mind, though. ;-) -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/