Re: Really annoying change to 11.2 sqlplus

  • From: Peter Hitchman <pjhoraclel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:30:48 +0000

Hi Dick,
Yeah I get that. But still sqlplus exits with a 0 return code after
showing the usage message, so that the failure goes unnoticed, its
been that way for ever (I think)
and I do not think that may be considered expected behaviour, sigh.

Regards
Pete

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Goulet, Richard
<Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pete,
>
>        I can just hear the programmers at Oracle howling in protest
> "That's expected behavior".  And having written a fair number of C and
> KSH scripts that handle command line parameters I can understand.  It's
> far easier, and less error prone, to remove code than to put in handlers
> when you obsolete something.  Just cut it out & let the default error
> handler take it.  I will agree though that it's less customer friendly.
>
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Leader
>
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