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Re: SELECT FROM TABLE(CAST... failure

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:54:02 +0200
Message-ID: <jseta2d3eesb6boggj49gdp29rh8rf3tkv@4ax.com>


On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:12:10 -0400, meathammer <googler_at_google.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:41:25 -0700, DA Morgan wrote:
>> with apologies for shouting:
>>
>> BECAUSE IT DOESN'T RETURN ANYTHING.
>
>huh ? I'm not calling a function...I want to reference pkg variable
>"testpkg.eml_dmo_nt"
>
>SQL> SELECT * FROM TABLE(CAST(testpkg.eml_dmo_nt AS email_demo_nt_t)) ;
>
>

You can't reference package variables (or constants) even if they are in the package specification. You'll need a very simply function to RETURN them.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 14:54:02 CDT

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