First of all, thanks for your time.

> As to the matter of CommitRetaining, I don't believe any IBO code

is

> performing CommitRetaining on a DDL statement - it is not possible,

since

> no database cursor is involved. I'd suspect that the

CommitRetaining

> pertains to something else, e.g. the output set for the view still

being

> open whilst you attempt to destroy the underlying view. This is

probably

> causing havoc.

I was wrong, it's not COMMIT RETAINING (it was the TIB_Monitor who
whas launching that), it's just COMMIT.

After your opinion, I'm now just wondering why creating a view is
lighting fast and dropping it very slow. I'll have to search another
option

D.