Re: External Procedures (newbie)

Try using double quotes instead of single quotes for myCProc.

"Rune F. S." <wideawake_at_ibm.net> wrote in message news:9b5h1e$f0e$1_at_news.inet.tele.dk...
> Hello,
> I'm trying to call an external C procedure or function from Oracle on a
 Sun
> machine. Without much succes.
>
> I have created a dynamic shared library of a C routine and placed it in
> "/usr/lib". This library is callable from other C programs.
> Then I create an Oracle library for the C library with the
> "CREATE LIBRARY mylib AS '/usr/lib/mylib'
> this returns succesfully.
>
> But when I try to create the Oracle procedure:
> CREATE PROCEDURE myProc AS EXTERNAL
> EXTERNAL LIBRARY mylib
> NAME 'myCProc'
> LANGUAGE C;
>
> it returns: warning: procedure created with compilation errors.
>
> and if I try to call it by typing in myProc on the SQLPLUS prompt it
> returns: unknown command
>
> And even if I try to type this in directly from the manual
> PROCEDURE myProc IS
> BEGIN
> SELECT * FROM test
> END myProc;
>
> I get an error: "Invalid SQL statement"
>
> Config:
> SUN: SunOS 5.7
> Oracle: Ver. 8.1.6.0.0
>
> Help!
> Thanks
>
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Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 22:19:12 CDT