> Also the problem stack trace or owa_util.who_called_me > is they would not give the name of the member in a > package, it just gives me the package name. This is > another thing I wanted to findout: if the caller is a > packaged function or packaged procedure, how do i get > the name in the form of package.procedure/function. Owa_util.who_called_me has lineno. You can find the function or procedure inside the package based on that, something like with x as (select line, lag(line)over(order by line) prevline, substr(text, 1, 80) text from dba_source where owner = '&1' and name = '&2' and regexp_like(text,'^ *(PROCEDURE|FUNCTION) ','i') order by 1) select line, text from x where &3 between prevline and line; Replace my substitution variables as follows: &1: your package owner &2: package name &3: lineno from owa_util.who_called_me I only spot-checked the code on a few examples. You may need to adjust the query part as necessary. If your database is pre-10g, replace regular expression functions with a function built on owa_pattern.[a]match, or run from 10g through a DB link. (I can give you full 9i examples.) Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l