Morgan's Problem D'Jour

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:45:23 -0800
Message-ID: <1078976695.620522@yasure>

Yes Oracle documentation has got me again. Here's the problem.

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Oracle 9.2.0.4 on W2K SP4

SQL> ALTER OPERATOR contains COMPILE;

Operator altered.

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Ok so we know the operator exists and is valid Then we try to comment it with.

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SQL> COMMENT ON OPERATOR contains IS 'Returns 1 if True, 0 if False if a string or number contains a
  different string or number';
COMMENT ON OPERATOR contains IS 'Returns 1 if True, 0 if False if a string or number contains a diff

            *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00966: missing TABLE keyword

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So we know the syntax listed at otn:

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"The COMMENT statement can be used to supply information about an indextype or operator. For example:

COMMENT ON OPERATOR
Ordsys.TextIndexType IS 'a number indicating whether the text contains the key';

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doesn't work.

A trip to metalink only shows a single document under ORA-00966 that has nothing to do with commenting operators.

Has anyone ever done this successfully? If so ... how? Thanks.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
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