VPD and hard parsing

From: Schauss, R. Peter (IT Solutions) <"Schauss,>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:52:40 -0500
Message-ID: <CD9150D80CFCFB42BC73C40791C1E01904C295C5_at_XMBIL112.northgrum.com>

A while back I implemented a VPD scheme to limit user access for reporting purposes. The way that I coded the functions which generated the predicates was such that, for the application they returned NULL, i.e. no restriction, and for specified reporting users, they generated restrictive code to be appended to the where clause. For example:

  function probsummarym1_sec(D1 varchar2, d2 varchar2)     return varchar2 is
    uname varchar2(30);
    d_predicate varchar2(2000);
    begin

        d_predicate := null;
        select sys_context('ADHOC_ACCESS','USERNAME') into uname from
dual;
        if (uname is not null ) then
        begin
            d_predicate := 'company in (select company from

custom.t_user_company_access where
username=sys_context(''ADHOC_ACCESS'',''USERNAME''))';

        end;
        end if;
        return d_predicate;

    end probsummarym1_sec;

Will this force a hard parse if it returns NULL?

This was on an Oracle 10.2.0.2.0

FWIW, I turned this project over to another DBA about a two weeks after they went production, so I have no direct indication as to whether my VPD implementation was causing performance problems.

Thanks,
Peter Schauss

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Received on Wed Jul 01 2009 - 15:52:40 CDT