Trailing nullcols and external tables

From: Stephens, Chris <chris_stephens_at_admworld.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:07:19 -0500
Message-ID: <7070047601C21A4CB387D50AD3661F6E051E5871@050EXCHANGE.research.na.admworld.com>

I've checked the sql reference and messed with the syntax but I don't seem to be able to get trailing nullcols to work in defining an external table.  

...is that not an option?  

the create statement succeeds without error but when i select from the table i get:  

SQL> select count(*) from data2;
select count(*) from data2
*
ERROR at line 1:

ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters
KUP-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "column,

enclosed, exit, (, ltrim, lrtrim, ldrtrim, missing, notrim, optionally, rtrim,
reject"

KUP-01008: the bad identifier was: trailing
KUP-01007: at line 9 column 4
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
 
 

am i missing something?  

CREATE TABLE "CMAP_WH"."DATA2"
   ( "GEOGRAPHY" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
"COMMODITY" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
"TIME_PERIOD" NUMBER(*,0),
"MEASURE_NAME" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
"MEASURE_VALUE" NUMBER,
"UNIT" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE),
"PARTNER_GEOGRAPHY" VARCHAR2(255 BYTE)

   )
   ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
    ( TYPE ORACLE_LOADER

      DEFAULT DIRECTORY "LOC"
      ACCESS PARAMETERS
      ( RECORDS DELIMITED BY NEWLINE

    CHARACTERSET WE8MSWIN1252
    STRING SIZES ARE IN BYTES
    NOBADFILE
    NODISCARDFILE
    NOLOGFILE
    FIELDS
      TERMINATED BY ','
   trailing nullcols

       (
        "GEOGRAPHY" CHAR,
        "COMMODITY" CHAR,
        "TIME_PERIOD" CHAR,
        "MEASURE_NAME" CHAR,
        "MEASURE_VALUE" CHAR,
        "UNIT" CHAR,
        "PARTNER_GEOGRAPHY" CHAR
      )
        )
      LOCATION
       ( 'd.CSV'
       )

    )
   REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED
/  

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