Laurent Schneider

What’s wrong with this code ?

Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production

SQL> drop table lsc_t ;

Table dropped.

SQL> create table lsc_t (x varchar2(255), y date);

Table created.

SQL> begin
  2    null;
  3  exception when others then
  4    insert into lsc_t (x,y)
  5          values (sqlerrm, sysdate);
  6  end;
  7  /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

I was in the process of migrating a database with 10g and this piece of code became invalid

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> drop table lsc_t ;

Table dropped.

SQL> create table lsc_t (x varchar2(255), y date);

Table created.

SQL> begin
  2    null;
  3  exception when others then
  4    insert into lsc_t (x,y)
  5          values (sqlerrm, sysdate);
  6  end;
  7  /
        values (sqlerrm, sysdate);
                *
ERROR at line 5:
ORA-06550: line 5, column 17:
PL/SQL: ORA-00984: column not allowed here
ORA-06550: line 4, column 3:
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored

SQL> 

Ok, the code is wrong. It has been running for half a decade in production but the exception was never reached.

Note it is a bug, and putting sqlerrm after sysdate would have generate the exception even in 9i

Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production

SQL> begin
  2    null;
  3  exception when others then
  4    insert into lsc_t (y,x)
  5          values (sysdate,sqlerrm);
  6  end;
  7  /
        values (sysdate,sqlerrm);
                        *
ERROR at line 5:
ORA-06550: line 5, column 25:
PL/SQL: ORA-00984: column not allowed here
ORA-06550: line 4, column 3:
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored

Just having fun with 10g migration

sqlerrm