Found my problem. Sorry to bother. I ran part and pieces from sqlplus and determined that part of the code to set role had a meaning change between Oracle 8 and Oracle 9. We went from 8 to 11 so that explains that.
I believe I have it working again. -----Original Message----- From: Howard, Chris [mailto:howa...@prpa.org] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:14 PM To: 'dbi-users@perl.org' Subject: time of prepare ? I have a DBD::Oracle script which needs some help. I have other DBD::Oracle scripts working ok, so I think my installation is fine. This particular script attempts to integrate into a larger application's job security features. The application vendor supplied me with some wrapped procedures and an outline for how to make this work. And I used it in the past. But we recently moved to Oracle 11 and the script no longer works. The tricky part uses a PL/SQL block to run a stored procedure which figures out what "role" should be in play for this particular user when running this particular job. It then does a dbms_session.set_role, and away we go. That all seems to work, as far as I can tell. But I am failing on a later prepared select of a table for which I need that role's permissions. The prepare statement occurs in the file after the role setting statement. My question is: is there some forward-in-time action going on which causes the prepare to happen before my role is properly set? And if so, how do I defeat that feature? Chris
