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Re: UTL_FILE output file size constraint?
Re: UTL_FILE output file size constraint?
We found the problem -- the directory had no space. We used a directory with
lots of space and voila! Instant output files!
>We know just enough to be dangerous here folks, so if we're ovelooking
>something obvious, please -- be gentle with us! <g>
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>We're in Oracle 7.3 on UNIX (AIX; Korn shell) writing PL/SQL using the
>UTL_FILE
>package to create a flat file. We can get it to work just fine with a small
>amount of data (a nice little literal or a few rows from a table). But,
>whenever we try to process more data (say 30 rows from a table and output
>them
>tab-delimited) we trigger a WRITE_ERROR and only get a few records in our
>output file. If we set the number of rows extracted in the exact same
>procedure
>down to something small (seems like under 3000 char max?) the procedure works
>just fine. ::sound of scratching heads::
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>Our guess is there is a constraint somewhere within UNIX or Oracle (our
>money's
>on UNIX) that we need to modify to allow us to output more characters (we
>need
>millions!) We discovered UNIX ulimit, but this was already set to a nice big
>number and wasn't our problem (at least so far as we can tell...).
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>Anyone have any ideas or clues for us? Any assistance is much appreciated!
>Thanks!
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Received on Mon Feb 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CST
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