Great! Now debug your function using dbms_output and let us know what did you find.
My guess is that the problem is that you have either numeric or value error.
On 03/03/2004 12:12:01 PM, Oracle wrote:
> I created this function:
>
> FUNCTION Fmemo_text (p_mtsn IN NUMBER)
> return CLOB is
> l_str CLOB;
> BEGIN
> Dbms_Lob.createtemporary(l_str,TRUE,Dbms_Lob.Call);
> FOR x IN
> (SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(MEMO_TEXT,chr(13),'Z'),CHR(10),'') AS MEMO_TEXT
> FROM NC_MEMO_TEXT
> WHERE MTSN = p_mtsn
> ORDER BY TEXT_ORDER)
> LOOP
> Dbms_Lob.WriteAppend(l_str,Length(x.memo_text),x.memo_text);
> END LOOP;
> RETURN l_str;
> END;
>
> However when i tried this insert into table concat_memo_text (mtsn NUMBER,
> memo_text CLOB) i get an error.
>
> INSERT INTO CONCAT_MEMO_TEXT (mtsn,memo_text)
> (SELECT mtsn,fmemo_text( mtsn ) MEMO_TEXT
> FROM nc_memo_text
> GROUP BY mtsn);
>
> ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
> ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOB", line 722
>
> Any ideas why??
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Neyman" <ineyman_at_perceptron.com>
> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:16 PM
> Subject: RE: URGENT - HELP ORA-06502:
>
>
> > "||" operator does not work with CLOB.
> >
> > Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> > ineyman_at_perceptron.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Oracle
> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:04 AM
> > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > Subject: Re: URGENT - HELP ORA-06502:
> >
> > The query returned a record which has length of 9612. This could vary
> > depending on when the query is run .
> >
> > So i changed the concat_memo_text.memo_text to CLOB.
> > And changed the function to use CLOB also.
> >
> > SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Fmemo_text (p_mtsn IN NUMBER)
> > 2 return CLOB is
> > 3 l_str CLOB;
> > 4 BEGIN
> > 5 FOR x IN
> > 6 (SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(MEMO_TEXT,chr(13),'Z'),CHR(10),'') AS
> > MEMO_TEXT
> > 7 FROM NC_MEMO_TEXT
> > 8 WHERE MTSN = p_mtsn
> > 9 ORDER BY TEXT_ORDER)
> > 10 LOOP
> > 11 l_str := l_str||''||x.memo_text;
> > 12 END LOOP;
> > 13 RETURN l_str;
> > 14 END;
> > 15 /
> >
> > However, i get error:
> >
> > 11/18 PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to '||'
> >
> > Have i missed something??
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Igor Neyman" <ineyman_at_perceptron.com>
> > To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:19 PM
> > Subject: RE: URGENT - HELP ORA-06502:
> >
> >
> > > You could be right, but:
> > >
> > > Select MTSN, sum(length(MEMO_TEXT))
> > > From NC_MEMO_TEXT
> > > Group by MTSN;
> > >
> > > Should tell, if "l_str" is big enough to hold the result of
> > > concatenation.
> > >
> > > Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> > > ineyman_at_perceptron.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> > > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Powell, Mark D
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:45 PM
> > > To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
> > > Subject: RE: URGENT - HELP ORA-06502:
> > >
> > > Actually could it be that while pl/sql supports a varchar2 being up to
> > > 32K
> > > in size that the calling environment only supports a varchar2 being as
> > > large
> > > as the database supports: 4,000 bytes?
> > >
> > > How large is the string returned by Fmemo_text? Can you test with a
> > > value
> > > that will return under 2K and see if the error still occurs or if the
> > > function works?
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> > > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Igor Neyman
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:39 PM
> > > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > > Subject: RE: URGENT - HELP ORA-06502:
> > >
> > >
> > > What error says, is that l_str variable in FUNCTION Fmemo_text is too
> > > small to hold the result of concatenation.
> > >
> > > Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
> > > ineyman_at_perceptron.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
> > > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Oracle
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:13 PM
> > > To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> > > Subject: URGENT - HELP ORA-06502:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have the following 2 Tables:
> > >
> > > CONCAT_MEMO_TEXT -
> > > MTSN NUMBER(10)
> > > MEMO_TEXT VARCHAR2(4000)
> > >
> > > NC_MEMO_TEXT -
> > > MTSN NUMBER(10)
> > > TEXT_ORDER NUMBER(10)
> > > MEMO_TEXT VARCHAR2(255)
> > > R_STATUS VARCHAR2(1)
> > >
> > > This function:
> > >
> > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Fmemo_text (p_mtsn IN NUMBER)
> > > return VARCHAR2 is
> > > l_str VARCHAR2(10000);
> > > BEGIN
> > > FOR x IN
> > > (SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(MEMO_TEXT,chr(13),'Z'),CHR(10),'') AS
> > > MEMO_TEXT
> > > FROM NC_MEMO_TEXT
> > > WHERE MTSN = p_mtsn
> > > ORDER BY TEXT_ORDER)
> > > LOOP
> > > l_str := l_str||''||x.memo_text;
> > > END LOOP;
> > > RETURN l_str;
> > > END;
> > > /
> > >
> > > I am trying this insert statement:
> > >
> > > INSERT INTO CONCAT_MEMO_TEXT (mtsn,memo_text)
> > > (SELECT mtsn,fmemo_text( mtsn ) MEMO_TEXT
> > > FROM nc_memo_text
> > > GROUP BY mtsn);
> > >
> > > However i get this error:
> > >
> > > ERROR at line 2:
> > > ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too
> > > small
> > > ORA-06512: at line 1
> > >
> > > I have tried various settings for l_str in the finction however i keep
> > > getting this error.
> > >
> > > I have also tried changing the datatype of CONCAT_MEMO_TEXT .MEMO_TEXT
> > > to
> > > Long, clob etc but no luck.
> > >
> > > Anyone got any ideas.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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