Cheesy one here.... I created a view similar to
Select field1, field2 from table where field3 = 'Fred' UNION Select field1, field2 from table where field3 = 'Wilma'; When the view contains just one sql statement the field definitions e.g. charater varying (20) however when both are in the fields turn into character varying (no size). this is causing a problem when referring to the fields within Dephi/VB because they think the varchar fields are memo. I have got around it by creating another view which selects field1::varchar(100) , field2 varchar(50) from firstview. I have tried casting the fields within the first view but to no sucess. Any way to get over this??? Cheers ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org