Re: global namespace qualifier for function?

From: Maxim Demenko <mdemenko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:25:30 +0200
Message-ID: <4A51447A.80301_at_gmail.com>



mh_at_pixar.com schrieb:
> How do I qualify a function or procedure call to indicate that it
> should be at global scope? I have my own scn_to_timestamp()
> in a package that needs to call the default global function of
> the same name.
>
> Many TIA!
> Mark
>
> create or replace package px as
> function scn_to_timestamp(scn number) return timestamp;
> end px;
>
> create or replace package body px as
> function scn_to_timestamp(scn number) return timestamp is
> begin
> -- how do I qualify this to refer to the global function?
> return scn_to_timestamp(scn);
> end;
> end px;
>

return sys.scn_to_timestamp(scn);

But what is the purpose of such wrapper?

Best regards

Maxim

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Received on Sun Jul 05 2009 - 19:25:30 CDT

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