Re: 'bug' with describe command

From: <tday6_at_csc.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:30:02 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003ED9E7.20020111052528@fatcity.com>

TO "get around" the 8.x->7.x database link I wrote:

/*
produces output similar to the 'desc' command over a db_link takes two parameters

the table to be described
the name of the db_link (with @ sign) */
-- t. day 9-25-01
set verify off select column_name, data_type, data_length from sys.dba_tab_COLUMNS&&2 where table_name = upper('&&1') order by 1 /

set verify on

You may want to pretty up the output to overcome the 200 character column_name and gather other information from dba_tab_columns, but it's a beginning.

                    Jared.Still                                                        
    
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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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