On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:26:23PM -0000, Rohan Holt wrote:
> I would like to use DBI & DBD::Oracle to call a third party (proprietry)
> stored proc API which happens to use PL/SQL tables as out parameters in some
> cases.
> 
> Problem:
> Having scanned many of the questions & answers relating to stored procs in
> this list it seems that this is not possible. The closest I came to a
> solution is binding to an open cursor. As I have no control over the coding
> of the stored proc this is not really an option. 

You can write a PL/SQL wrapper.

> Has anyone been able to return data from PL/SQL tables using DBI with
> Oracle? Is there likely to be any support for this soon (if there isn't
> already)?

Not unless someone (ie a company) sponsors the work to raise it's priority
(I'll get to it eventually but I've a pile of other DBI, DBD::Oracle,
Oracle::OCI, and extproc_perl work to do first).

Having said that, Andy Sautins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (CC'd) has a patch
for DBD::Oracle that implements collections. Something along those line
will get into DBD::Oracle eventually (probably in conjunction with Oracle::OCI).

Tim.

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