Tanel P=F5der apparently said,on my timestamp of 7/02/2005 12:07 AM: > Could it be because Oracle doesn't want to grow the sessions fixed arra= y too=20 > large? What, from 32 bytes? In this day and age of multi-Gb memories even in PC= 's? Sounds to me as a very weird and myopic way of keeping memory low, particularly when the per session memory for Oracle is already in the multi-Mb arena... > As one possdible workaround, you could write and use a wrapper for=20 Oh, I know the workaround. --=20 Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l