Igor, Thanks, I'm familiar with that. That's why I don't understand how it worked in the first place. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: Igor Neyman [mailto:ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:06 PM To: William Wagman; oracle-l Subject: RE: PL/SQL differences between Solaris & Linux Bill, I'm not sure, how/why it worked for you before. But, this is from Oracle docs: "You cannot use SQLERRM directly in a SQL statement. Assign the value of SQLERRM to a local variable first: my_sqlerrm := SQLERRM; ... INSERT INTO errors VALUES (my_sqlerrm, ...);" Igor -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Wagman Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:29 PM To: oracle-l Subject: PL/SQL differences between Solaris & Linux Greetings, We are in the process of moving our 9.2.0.8.0 EE database from Solaris SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-54 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R to Linux 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Apr 22 13:58:43 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux and have found an issue with some PL/SQL code. The following PL/SQL code segment (if the entire procedure would help, it's only 100 lines, let me know) compiled successfully on Solaris... EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN SELECT ucd.log_seq.NEXTVAL INTO v_error_row FROM DUAL; INSERT INTO ucd.LOG VALUES (v_error_row, 'APS', 'CARD_SERVICE_FIX', 'PROCEDURE', 'ERROR', SQLCODE || ': ' || SQLERRM || '.', SYSDATE); This code on linux generated the error PL/SQL: ORA-00984: column not allowed here Which is to be expected (I guess) as I this is apparently not supported with SQLCODE and SQLERRM and I had to make the following changes... v_error_string VARCHAR2 (4000); . . EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN v_error_string := SQLCODE || ': ' || SQLERRM || '.'; SELECT ucd.log_seq.NEXTVAL INTO v_error_row FROM DUAL; INSERT INTO ucd.LOG VALUES (v_error_row, 'APS', 'CARD_SERVICE_FIX', 'PROCEDURE', 'ERROR', v_error_string, SYSDATE); Can anyone explain why this worked on Solaris but not on linux (disclaimer: I didn't write the code). Is there something else I may not be aware of going on, is it an artifact of something else, are there differences between solaris and linux in this regard or are the gods just angry at me for other transgressions? Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l