dumb question, is that something you'd really want to do on a webserver? or is that process very resource stingy? thanks and happy new year. On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:27:37 +0200, Paul Scott <paul at in2one.co.za> wrote: > //function to insert shapefiles (ESRI) into PostGIS DB > function create_sql($filename,$dbname)