Re: Bad Documentation Strikes Again

From: Andy Hassall <andy_at_andyh.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:06:54 +0000
Message-ID: <t0vr30trkq00ge6dsa0tn4dtuqrrcdqu1a@4ax.com>

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:39:34 -0800, Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:

>Ok here's the reference:
>http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96612/d_util2.htm#998631
>
>Note that it says:
>
>"context Must be an integer between 0 and 8."
>
>Well by between they sure don't mean you can use 0 or 8 but there is
>no hint anywhere as to what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 mean.
>
>I did some experimenting and 1 seems to equate to functions,
>procedures and packages. 2 seems to equate to tables and synonyms.

Yep, pretty awful - tried to find out what they meant a couple of weeks back, and came across Note 1008700.6 on Metalink. Basically Oracle say it only works properly for "procedures, functions and packages", so it's not even a general name resolution procedure as the docs imply. Received on Thu Feb 26 2004 - 08:06:54 CST