I was trying to create a pipelined table function in PL/SQL but facing the below error. Is this an syntax error?
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION FUNC_IDS(
IDS_IN IN VARCHAR2
) RETURN IDS_T
PIPELINED
IS
BEGIN
select * from dual;
return;
END func_ids;
Script Output:
Function FUNC_IDS compiled
LINE/COL ERROR
--------- -------------------------------------------------------------
0/0 PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated
3/10 PLS-00201: identifier 'IDS_T' must be declared
Errors: check compiler log
I missed to create the row and table types before creating the func. Have created them later as below and trying to create the function that gets input as a string of IDs and pipe out the individual IDs to another function.
CREATE TYPE TF_ROW AS OBJECT (ID NUMBER);
CREATE TYPE IDS_T IS TABLE OF TF_ROW;
create or replace function func_ids (ids_in in varchar2) return ids_t pipelined is
n_start pls_integer := 1;
n_end pls_integer := 1;
--
begin
loop
-- find the first and next comma in string
n_start := instr(ids_in, ',', n_start, 1);
n_end := instr(ids_in, ',', n_start, 2);
--
if (n_end <= 0) then
exit;
end if;
-- get the string and pipe it back out
pipe row (to_number(substr(ids_in, n_start+1, n_end - n_start - 1)));
-- ready for next one
n_start := n_end;
end loop;
return;
end func_ids;
Script Output:
Function FUNC_IDS compiled
LINE/COL ERROR
--------- -------------------------------------------------------------
22/5 PL/SQL: Statement ignored
22/15 PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type
Errors: check compiler log
What's wrong with the expression here?pipe row (to_number(substr(ids_in, n_start+1, n_end - n_start - 1)));
As you were told,
IDS_T
isn't declared.Here's an example which works. See how I did it, do it yourself with your data.
Types:
Function:
Testing:
How to use the result returned by
FUNC_IDS
? I'm doing it using code you posted as a comment (theFUNC_ENAME
function); I marked what you did wrong.