Helen,

>>which won't work since recreating a databae out of it will recreate the
>>procedure which will make it work again
>
> This isn't correct, actually, Lucas. SP's don't get recreated on a
> restore. It's the BLR that is backed up (as a blob) and restored (as
> a blob). You can back up a database that has had the PSQL sources removed.

Yes, you're absolutely right.

Otherwise I'd been in problems with all my procs with blanked or faked
source code...

Luc.