Re: PL/SQL: character string buffer too small

Hi,

  In PL/SQL, you can define varchar2 datatype to be of length 32767   (max). The limit of 4000 is when the datatype is used in table   creation.

Regards
Rajagopal Venkataramany

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From: Andreas Jung <ajung_at_sz-sb.de>
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Subject: PL/SQL: character string buffer too small Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 02:29:06 -0800

I have a PL/SQL function that returns VARCHAR2. When the size of the return string is greater than about 2000 characters I get an ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small during the return statement.

So how should one return varchar2 strings up to 32000 bytes when this error occurs all the time ?

Andreas

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