On 5/21/07, David Taft <oradbt054@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Senthil, Unfortunately the sqlplus session was still running in the background when I tried the 'print -f exit' inside the trap. However, that got me rethinking the problem. What worked was the the following:
I played with using SQL in coprocesses quite some time ago. ( not a new feature :) It was kind of fun, but ultimately I couldn't see a good use for it. It was far easier to just run a sqlplus session than to setup a coprocess and deal with the vagaries of getting this all to work properly in the background. For instance, how do you tell the coprocess that the output from a script it complete? Nonetheless, it eventually did work. You can find a tar file with coprocess functions for use with SQL*Plus at the bottom of the following page. It isn't perfect, but it did work last time I tried it. http://jaredstill.com/utilities.html -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
