>Eugene,
>In order for view index to work, if I'm not mistaken, you need to ensure that buffering is set to row and not table buffering or the other way round.

You're right, though I'd expect it to error out when you try to index a view with wrong buffering scheme on: "Command cannot be issued on a table with cursors in table buffering mode.".

So, Evgeniy, did you get this error or was it something else?