On Thu, 04 Jan 2007, srielau_at_ca.ibm.com wrote:
> Galen Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
>>> Anurag Varma wrote:
>>>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>> I would agree that throwing an error would be a "nice to have" but I
>>> wouldn't call it a bug any more than I would expect Oracle to hold
>>> my hand if I am fool enough to write this code.
>>>
>>> CREATE SYNONYM dummy FOR dual;
>>>
>>> set serveroutput on
>>>
>>> DECLARE
>>> dummy VARCHAR2(1);
>>> BEGIN
>>> SELECT dummy
>>> INTO dummy
>>> FROM dummy;
>>>
>>> dbms_output.put_line(dummy);
>>> END;
>>> /
>> You don't think that out of the thousands of people using the
>> product,
>> there aren't quite a few people who would make this simple mistake?
>>
> OK, I bite. What's wrong with the code? (I mean beyond being silly)
Actually, I should have answered another part of the thread. I was
really talking about making the mistake of creation of a table with
timestamp as a column name.
--
Galen Boyer
Received on Thu Jan 04 2007 - 20:07:06 CST
