Hello, I have recently started trying out monetdb and have been very impressed by its speed so far. However, I am hitting a failure trying to read in a large negative number (bitmask) into a bigint field; sql>\<test.sql operation successful value '-9223372036854775808' from line 1 field 17 not inserted, expecting type bigint failed to import table I've attached the sql commands to create the table and a test file to this message. As far as I can tell, this should be fine for being represented by a 64 bit integer.... I am running this on an OS X 10.6 64-bit system, this is the Dec-2011 SP2 version of the 64 bit binaries dowloaded from www.monetdb.org. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance, -- Nikhil --------------------------------- Nikhil Padmanabhan nikhil.padmanabhan@yale.edu