querying results from postgresql

I am having trouble with a db query that was working not too long ago. I did upgrade from php4 to php5 and wonder if there are some differences that could explain my issue. Below is the code where I suspect things are breaking down. // build sql query from form values $select_query = "select * from grid_cell where township = $township and range = $range and rdir_shortname = '$rdir_shortname' and section = $section and forty_name = '$forty_name'"; //echo $select_query; // use for debugging sql query // retrieve the query info from postgresql //this returns a resource, so put the resource into a variable $result = pg_query($select_query); //echo $result; // use for debugging sql query // process results. First argument pg_result is the returned result set ($grid_cell), // second argument is the row offset, and the third argument is the column offset. $forty_grid = pg_result($result, 0, 0); //echo $forty_grid; // use for debugging sql query If I uncomment echo $select_query, the scrip prints the proper query like this: select * from grid_cell where township = 67 and range = 1 and rdir_shortname = 'W' and section = 1 and forty_name = 'NWNW' However, if I uncomment echo $result, the script prints: Resource id #2 and also the error: Unable to jump to row 0 on PostgreSQL result index 2 I think that the variable $result is getting the result from pg_query and subsequently $forty_grid is not receiving what it expects either. Does anyone see what I'm not doing right here? Thanks,