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Re: How to set the size of string returned by PL/SQL functions?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:11:23 -0700
Message-ID: <1191690671.632229@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


John Heitmuller. wrote:

>> but....WHY ? why do you care ? and why do you THINK you want to do it ?

>
> Well, my thought was that if a desc of the view was showing a size of
> 4000 for the column returned by the function that I was consuming 3985
> (4000-15) extra bytes for every record returned by a query of the
> view. Is that correct thinking? Or, is oracle smarter than that?
>
> John

Oracle is smarter than that.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sat Oct 06 2007 - 12:11:23 CDT

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