ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small

From: Steve Baldwin <stbaldwin_at_multiservice.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:19:15 -0500
Message-ID: <DC55FA7F-6151-46E1-850F-BD089D91FC34_at_multiservice.com>

(On 11.1.0.7)

How's this for weird ...

SQL> select fw_phrase_common_p.normalise_phrase('Über') from dual; select fw_phrase_common_p.normalise_phrase('Über') from dual

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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-06512: at "MSMARINE.FW_PHRASE_COMMON_P", line 1015

SQL> alter package fw_phrase_common_p compile body;

Package body altered.

SQL> select fw_phrase_common_p.normalise_phrase('Über') from dual;

FW_PHRASE_COMMON_P.NORMALISE_PHRASE('ÜBER')

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ÜBER We have NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS set to CHAR at the DB level.

It seems that it is somehow losing the nls_char_semantics setting of the package. The statement it was failing on is :

:
FUNCTION normalise_phrase(i_text IN VARCHAR2) RETURN VARCHAR2 AS
--

     l_ret           VARCHAR2(2000) := NULL;
     l_wds           PLS_INTEGER := 0;
     l_iswhite       BOOLEAN := TRUE;
     l_ch            CHAR(1);

--

BEGIN

     FOR i IN 1 .. LENGTH(i_text) LOOP
         l_ch := UPPER(SUBSTR(i_text, i, 1));    -- <-- Line 1015

Any ideas ???

Steve

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