I was just going to display the fields in a record and my first thought was to use the relevant class and then just call get-dao and iterate over the slots, something like: (item (postmodern:get-dao 'countrynotes (parse-integer id)))) However, looking at the countrynotes definition, you quickly notice that it has a foreign key: ; shortened version of the countrynotes class (defclass countrynotes () ( (id :accessor id :col-type int4 :initarg :id ) (country-id :accessor country-id :col-type int4 :initarg :country-id :foreign-key (countries id)) (name :accessor name :col-type varchar :initarg :name ) (updated-at :accessor updated-at :col-type timestamp :initarg :updated-at )) (:metaclass postmodern:dao-class) (:table-name countrynotes)(:keys id)) In displaying the countrynote, I don't really want to show the country-id, I really want to display the name of the country instead, which is another table: (defclass countries () ( (id :accessor id :col-type int4 :initarg :id ) (name :accessor name :col-type varchar :initarg :name ) (updated-at :accessor updated-at :col-type timestamp :initarg :updated-at )) (:metaclass postmodern:dao-class) (:table-name countries)(:keys id)) I can easily write out the full required sql statement, but is there a simple way of just using the dao? Sabra