Re: 'bug' with describe command

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:36:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003ED3A8.20020110153525@fatcity.com>

Sorry Steve, you'll have to live with it.

Oracle has never had any intention of fixing this seemingly simple yet enormously annoying bug.

Wait til you try to do a describe across a 8.x->7.x database link.

That won't work at all.

Jared

                                                                                       
                             
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I have recently converted from 7.3.4 to 8i. The conversion went well, but I
have finally gotten around to dealing with an annoying problem. The problem
is that since the 8 conversion my sqlplus session returns the output from describe in a strange manner. The Name column for example is close to 200 characters long. I can control this by setting my sqlplus linesize to something more pedestrian than the 500 characters I have set in my login.sql.

The output of the describe command when describing a package is as expected, regardless of linesize. So in my opinion this is not a feature.

Any chance any of you have run across this in the past? I am hoping a patch
exists, because 8.1.6 is the final release for my OS platform.

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