Best way to use PL/SQL Pacakge Cursors from Pro*C

Posted by Greg Reynolds on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Greg Reynolds
Published on 2010-06-11T14:02:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 16:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 250

Filed under:
|
|

I have a cursor defined in PL/SQL, and I am wondering what the best way to use it from Pro*C is. Normally for a cursor defined in Pro*C you would do:

EXEC SQL DECLARE curs CURSOR FOR SELECT 1 FROM DUAL;
EXEC SQL OPEN curs;
EXEC SQL FETCH curs INTO :foo;
EXEC SQL CLOSE cusr;

I was hoping that the same (or similar) syntax would work for a packaged cursor. For example, I have a package MyPack, with a declaration

type MyType is record (X integer);
cursor MyCurs(x in integer) return MyType;

Now I have in my Pro*C code a rather unsatisfying piece of embedded PL/SQL that opens the cursor, does the fetching etc., as I couldn't get the first style of syntax to work. Using the example

EXEC SQL EXECUTE
  DECLARE
    XTable is table of MyPack.MyType;
  BEGIN
    OPEN MyPack.MyCurs(:param);
    FETCH MyPack.MyCurs INTO XTable;
    CLOSE MyPack.MyCurs;
  END;
END-EXEC;

Does anyone know if there is a more "Pure" Pro*C approach?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about Oracle

Related posts about plsql