Truncate table call in procedure

I am having trouble creating a stored procedure in Oracle 7.3.4

The procedure runs once a month and summarizes records in a detail table into a summary table and then clears the detail table.

Everything works except that Oracle doesn't seem to allow the truncate command in a procedure. I took all the code out except the truncate and found that the following procedure definition won't compile

procedure new_month is
begin

   truncate table Detail;
end;

but the following will

procedure new_month is
begin

    delete Detail;
end;

I would prefer to truncate the table rather than delete the records. Can this be done?

Ron Received on Thu Jan 20 2000 - 14:39:04 CST