Defining is fine, try assining soem values to them and then see ... I believe this happens because until you use it for the first time, memory isn't allocated to the variable. you get my drift ... Raj On 3/16/06, Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco <juancarlosreyesp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > I think this is a bug, because you can create the same variable, using > the same datatype. > > create or replace package glb_test as > g_num number; > g_num number; > end; > / > > I think nobody had found this bug, or if did, no body reported it, and > that is the reason why you still see it. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- ---------------------------------------------- Got RAC? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l