Was just using today's drupal-cvs.tar.gz and found this problem running update.php: Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[' in /drupal/database/updates.inc on line 2294 The offending line looks like this ( part of update_125() ): $ret[] = update_sql[] = ("CREATE FUNCTION "if"( ... maybe it should look like this?: $ret[] = update_sql ("CREATE FUNCTION if( ... Actually, the whole line doesn't make much sense to me, and looks broken. Since it is postgres specific (and I use mysql), I made the above change and it worked for me, but really someone with postgres running needs to look at this. Cheers, Ross.