Hello, It appears that setting *escape-sql-names-p* breaks dao objects a bit. If it is t when defclass is called, calling get-dao on that class will result in an error from build-row-reader like "Field field does not exist in table class TABLE-CLASS", even though field does indeed exist. This is because slot-sql-name will return a quoted copy of the field name due to *escape-sql-names-p*. A fix is to change direct-column-slot's shared-initialize method to use s-sql:make-sql-name rather than to-sql-name; make-sql-name doesn't quote the column name. However, make-sql-name would then need to be exported by s-sql. A somewhat related issue is that the dao documentation example: http://common-lisp.net/project/postmodern/postmodern.html#daos (defclass user () ... ) has problems if *escape-sql-names-p* is not set since user is an sql keyword. I personally would prefer to see *escape-sql-names-p* set as the default, which would fix this issue. Another solution would be to pick a different example class name or to set *escape-sql-names-p*. Thanks, Gavin Scott gavindscott@gmail.com