I have compiled and installed mysql 3.23.33 and now 3.23.36 on a MAC OS X machine.. uanme -a gives.. Rhapsody haarp 5.6 Kernel Release 5.6: Tue Nov 23 15:07:38 PST 1999; root(rcbuilder):Objects/kernel-187.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Copyright (c) 1988-1995,1997-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Power Macintosh With the .33 version everything seemed ok until one of our developers tried to insert a BLOB into the database using WebObjects. He says he gets an error and all sort of strange ASCII characters? I saw someone suggest upgrading to at least .34a to fix this. I have now upgraded to .36 We haven't tried the BLOB insert yet but I was running the mysql-test-run program and got the following results. As you can see one test is skipped and another (binary) failed. Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be? Thanks. Pat. -------- First results. ./mysql-test-run Installing Test Databases Removing Stale Files Installing Master Databases Installing Slave Databases Starting MySQL daemon Loading Standard Test Databases Starting Tests TEST USER SYSTEM ELAPSED RESULT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ alias 0.06 0.13 0.32 [ pass ] alter_table 0.02 0.17 0.45 [ pass ] analyse 0.03 0.15 0.27 [ pass ] auto_increment 0.03 0.16 0.46 [ pass ] backup 0.01 0.18 0.39 [ pass ] bdb-crash 0.05 0.15 0.24 [ pass ] bdb .... .... .... [ skipped ] bigint 0.04 0.15 0.27 [ pass ] binary .... .... .... [ fail ] lt-mysqltest: At line 34: Result length mismatch real 0.29 user 0.05 sys 0.14 Aborting. To continue, re-run with '--force'. Ending Tests Shutting-down MySQL daemon