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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: inner workings of UTL_FILE.RENAME??
underthegun wrote:
> We are using the UTL_FILE.RENAME function to give created files good names
> after they are complete (we use temporary names at creation time and use
> that name while still writing the file). Can anyone tell me the logic
> that Oracle uses to perform these file renames on the UNIX system? We
> occasionally run into trouble when another piece of software, looking for
> completed files (ignores files with "TEMP" in the front of the file name),
> tries to pick up one of the files that is being renamed from it's
> TEMP_<filename> to <filename>.
Don't know but I'd be surprised if it was much more than mv.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Fri Oct 22 2004 - 00:02:12 CDT
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