RE: For You Sticky Developers out there.....

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is entirely possible i am missing the point. I am not even qualified to have my head shrunk and jabbed on a stick at an oracle developers potluck campfire,

BUT It's not like I am doing something complicated. I am executing a simple call to a simple BUILT IN stored procedure.

EXECUTE DBMS_UTILITY.GET_TIME; I guess I just can't believe it hasn't worked since version 7, and no one caught it...hence...i think that *I* am doing something wrong....

BUT, THEN AGAIN maybe not. <shrug>

Time to shear off another pseudopod so i can eat for the night..........

-----Original Message-----
From: Toepke, Kevin M [mailto:ktoepke_at_cms.cendant.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:06 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: For You Slick Developers out there.....

Oracle 8.0 and before requires that a function have the following in the header in order for it to work in a select statement:     PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(...)
Oracle, in its infinite wisdom, didn't put the pragma in most of its internal functions...
 
Oracle 8i got rid of this PRAGMA. You still can't directly update the database in a select statement.

Kevin 

 -----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:51 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I get a version-specific glitch ( works in 816, fails in 805 ) for a call to the DBMS_UTILITY.GET_TIME built-in:

######################

SQL> select dbms_utility.get_time from dual; select dbms_utility.get_time from dual
       *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06571: Function GET_TIME does not guarantee not to update database
######################

Any ideas why 80520 doesn't like this?

TIA,

• Ross

p.s.  a simple assignment, like, for example  time := DBMS_UTILITY.GET_TIME;

        fails as well.

p.p.s  I know how to use V$TIMER, so i am looking for a "why this doesn't work"
          not a "How to fix it by using V$TIMER"  answer.

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