> 'why is view and trigger text stored in LONGs'

Just a wild guess, but I would bet that in previous versions it had to
do with the fact that the objects were compiled at each execution, and
storing them as longs as opposed to friendly text somehow cut down on
that time.  Or maybe that's how everything is really stored, and we're
shielded from that by the _SOURCE views.

Enough speculation for today...

Brian

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Faroult
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:53 AM
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Not quite the good reason, since triggers and views are stored in LONGs
and you can get this type of message too...
Remember that procedures were introduced with Oracle 6, and there were
no CLOBs then. It was either a LONG (already used to store view text) or
lines of varchars, which I think were then limited to 2,000 characters
(or perhaps 255 like Oracle5)? For having used LONGs in Pro*C programs,
my question would rather be 'why is view and trigger text stored in
LONGs'. Lines are much easier to process.

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>AFAIK, it has always been like that, how else would
>Oracle report "error at
>Line 15 Col 26" ...
>
>Raj
>Rajendra Jamadagni              MIS, ESPN Inc.
>Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
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