Consider the following: trbauer=# create table t1 (x numberic(3,2)); trbauer=# \d t1 Attribute | Type | Modifier ------------------------------------ X | numeric(3,2) | trbauer=# create view v1 as select x*2 from t1; trbauer=# \d v1 Attribute | Type | Modifier ------------------------------------------- ?column? | numeric(65535,65531) | How do I get the precision on the calculated numeric field to be something sane, like 3,2? This is important for three reasons: 1.MSAccess chokes on views containing these fields (citing the precision size). 2. The jdbc driver takes _forever_ to retrieve these fields into big decimal. 3. I really don't want to reconfigure my database to use floating points :) Thanks, ---------------------------------------------------------------- Travis Bauer | CS Grad Student | IU |www.cs.indiana.edu/~trbauer ----------------------------------------------------------------