Keyword LANGUAGE is used in pl/sql when creating external procedures. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14251/adfns_extern_proc.htm#i1006405 It is also pl/sql keyword http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14261/reservewords.htm#CIHFDHGB The syntax was the same also in 9i, don't know why it throws error now. Probably more strict restrictions on using them. Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu 2008/9/24 Jack van Zanen <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi All > > We have an external table that reads from a datafile just fine in Oracle 9i. > However we upgraded our test environment to 10G and now it complaints about > the column name "LANGUAGE". It expects double quotes. > > I had a look in the v$reserved_words view and do not see this word as > reserved. > Changing the column name to language1(or something) fixes the problem, but > I am wondering why we need to do this. > > > Brgds > > -- > J.A. van Zanen > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
