Hi there, I use Rails in combination with an PostgreSQL DB 8.X. I have a table with includes a column with the type OID. Rails didn´t know these type. Isn´t it. A possible SQL Synthax to update/insert a picture in the table is: update TABLE set oid_column = lo_import(''picture''); When I use a scaffold generaded and a little bit modificated edit view the statement which was automaticly generated by Rails is: update TABLE set oid_column = ''lo_import(''picture'')''; ^ ^ Rails quotes the statement and use it as an text value but these raises an error. I need these statement as an expression without quotes. Are there solutions to solve my problem. Please apologize my bad english. I hope you know what I mean. Thanks Torsten