SQL INSERT FAILS - IDENTIFIER TOO LONG (ORA-00972)

What is really causing the insert to fail? My object name is 4 characters long; max lenght is 30 characters. Oracle 10.2 on RHE rel 4.

This is from a back-end pl/sql process that is called by a perl script; we are not getting any errors from perl or the log file.

Trying it manually does show the error though.

SQL> DESC TEST

 Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- --------
----------------------------
 ALARM_ID                                  NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 ARHANDLE                                  NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 WACN                                      NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 SYSTEM                                    NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 RFSS                                      NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 SITE                                      NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 IPADDRESS                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(16)
 SEVERITY                                  NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 CLEARED                                   NOT NULL VARCHAR2(5)
 ACKNOWLEDGED                              NOT NULL VARCHAR2(5)
 ACK_TEXT                                  NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1024)
 TIME_DETECTED                             NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 NUM_SEEN                                           NUMBER(38)
 LAST_SEEN                                          NUMBER(38)
 ALIAS_NAME                                NOT NULL VARCHAR2(16)
 ELEM_TYPE                                 NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 ELEM_INST                                 NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 ALARM_CODE                                NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 ALARM_DESC_TEXT                           NOT NULL VARCHAR2(80)
 ALARM_DIAG_TEXT                           NOT NULL VARCHAR2(128)
 CATEGORY                                  NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
 ACK_TIME                                           NUMBER(38)
 ACK_USERID                                         VARCHAR2(16)
 CLEAR_TIME                                         NUMBER(38)
 CLEAR_USERID                                       VARCHAR2(16)
 AGENCY_ID                                 NOT NULL NUMBER(38)

SQL> create table test as select * from alarm_tbl where 1=3;

Table created.

SQL> insert into test
  2 values
  3 (test_seq.nextval,1,1,1,1,1,"10.128.3.232",3,"false","false","none",1158784510000,1,1158784510000,"NMS",27,1,1283,"Unexpected event in current state","Backup failed : Please check
/u02/backups/backups_26810.err for errors",5,,,,,1);

(ALARM_ID_SEQ.nextval,1,1,1,1,1,"10.128.3.232",3,"false","false","none",1158784510000,1,1158784510000,"NMS",27,1,1283,"Unexpected event in current state","Backup failed : Please check
/u02/backups/backups_26810.err for errors",5,,,,,1)

*
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-00972: identifier is too long

Now without the sequence:

SQL> SQL> insert into test
values
(1,1,1,1,1,1,"10.128.3.232",3,"false","false","none",1158784510000,1,1158784510000,"NMS",27,1,1283,"Unexpected event in current state","Backup failed : Please check
/u02/backups/backups_26810.err for errors",5,,,,,1);

  2 3 (1,1,1,1,1,1,"10.128.3.232",3,"false","false","none",1158784510000,1,1158784510000,"NMS",27,1,1283,"Unexpected event in current state","Backup failed : Please check
/u02/backups/backups_26810.err for errors",5,,,,,1)

*
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-00972: identifier is too long

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