> IOW, you'd still have to TABLEUPDATE to get the index to update (as you pointed out). I think there's more to this situation than we realize.
>

Agreed - there's something in the scenario that's either misstated, or the problem statement itself is not describing the full sequence of events behind the corruption.

>Wang, there's got to be something to this that you haven't told us. Is the cursor that you're adding the record to a view? If so, have you buffered the source table as well?