Emmitt beat me to it! I had the same thing happen. For some reason it goes through your entire database structure. If you have invalid view definitions, you get this error! So search your sys_views for views that have that column name in it. Drop the view and you're good to go!
Karen > That sounds like a view definition error. While it may not seem to be > pertinent to a GATEWAY command, it could be that R:BASE is re-evaluating > structures when you do the REPLACE, just as it will check through all the > forms > and reports when you do an ALTER TABLE without NOCHECK. > > > > Emm > > >

