Re: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

What about the case where a client Pro*C program (for example) has an embedded
anonymous pl/sql block which does:

begin

    :local_target_variable := procedure xyz(:local_source_variable); end;

You might also consider the warning that goes with the NOCOPY option - to the effect that it is not always possible for NOCOPY to be honoured because it is not always possible for a pointer to be used.

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 06 March 2002 17:58

|This is not true. the client does not communicate with the procedure.
Oracle
|shadow process does.
|It's always a pointer.
|
|regards,
|
|Waleed
|

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