RE: ** field names of a ref cursor

AFAIK there are no PL/SQL functions to do what you want to do; they are available as OCI functions, though, but PL/SQL only implements a very small subset of what is available with OCI. An external C procedure might be an option, but only if not called too often. In my experience trying to write fully generic procedures is more often than not a recipe for unmaintainable code and hard to predict performance. I would possibly be simpler to identify the various cases you may have and write small wrapper procedures.

HTH, SF

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>From: A Joshi <ajoshi977_at_yahoo.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>Sent: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:19:27
>
>Hi,
> I am calling a Oracle stored procedure which has
>a ref cursor as a out param. I get the values. Is
>there a way for me to know the field names and type
>of the fields being passed in the ref cursor.
>Basically when the procedure sends back the ref
>cursor what information do I get apart from the
>data. Do I get any metadata (field names types
>etc). This is basically to write a calling program
>which I do not have to change when the ref curor
>/record changes in the stored procedure.
>Thanks in advance.
>

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