I have a question about view management... I often have need for views that reference views that reference views, and so on. When I need to make a small update to one of the views, I am faced with having to drop and recreate all dependent views even if the driving change just adds another column to the view, for example. I might have to drop and recreate many tens of views just to make a change to a single view. What a PITA. How do others manage this? TIA. Ed ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match