From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Feb 2 09:00:04 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j12F04QC031798 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:00:04 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j12F01em031789 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:00:01 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D541C6C6F2; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:57:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13230-09; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:57:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 582726C730; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:57:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Lex de Haan" To: , , Subject: RE: Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:55:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Thread-Index: AcUJLNZjXYKWZKKUReCcCsuVbB4FFgAAXgQQ In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-Id: <20050202135536.A148D47E4CD@ha-smtp2.tiscali.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 15669 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl Precedence: normal Reply-To: lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,HOT_NASTY autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: one more idea comes to mind: are you using cursor sharing, by any chance? see Metalink, bug 2092801, for an issue that might hit you ... the workarounds listed in that bug are: - Use the FORMAT command to set explicit column widths. - Change CURSOR_SHARING to EXACT. - Flush the shared pool. cheers, Lex. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Kyte Seminar: http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Mercadante, Thomas F Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 14:40 To: 'CMarquez@aarp.org'; oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: RE: Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... Chris, I just tried this in my 817 and 9203 databases and get different results than you. Both my queries return a row like your 817 example - that is 5 chars in length. Maybe you have a glogin.sql script that is setting a column length for you in 92 but not in 817? Tom -----Original Message----- From: Marquez, Chris [mailto:CMarquez@aarp.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 5:19 PM To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... Different default 8i/9i column lengths when selecting pseudo columns... This is the issue... =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 8.1.7 SQL*Plus=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D SQL> select 'xxxxx' from dual; 'XXXX ----- xxxxx =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 9.2.0 SQL*Plus=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 SQL> select 'xxxxx' from dual; 'XXXXX' -------------------------------- xxxxx How do I change the default behavior in 9i to "stop" the column at the end of the last character of the pseudo columns (like 8i default)? Thanks Chris Marquez Oracle DBA HEYMONitor(tm) - heymonitor.com "Oracle Monitoring & Alerting Solution" -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l