Question

For debugging purposes, I need to raise an application level message based on given flag. Here is exception code

  EXCEPTION
    WHEN dml_errors THEN
      l_errors := SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS.COUNT;
      S_Publish('I', 'Number of statements that failed: ' || l_errors);
      FOR i IN 1..l_errors LOOP
         S_Publish('I', 'Error #' || TO_CHAR(i) || ' occurred during '|| 'iteration #' || SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS(i).ERROR_INDEX);
         S_Publish('I', 'Error message is ' || SQLERRM(-SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS(i).ERROR_CODE));
         S_Publish('I', 'Failing Record ID is ' || sap_tbl_ins(SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS(i).ERROR_INDEX).DEVICE_PIN);
      END LOOP;
      IF g_app_error_flag THEN
        raise_application_error(-20707, 'Fatal Error: Replication script exceptions', TRUE);
      END IF;

    WHEN OTHERS THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Error on record:' || l_zzman);
      S_Publish('I', 'SAP_EQUI Update: Failure processing record ' || l_zzman);
      S_Publish ('F');
      IF g_app_error_flag THEN
        raise_application_error(-20708, 'Fatal Error: Replication script exceptions', TRUE);
      END IF;

now given this code, the raise_application_error should raise an whenever the **g_app_error_flag is true. However, in all cases (i mean with testing environment where i am failing the script intentionally by adding some constraint on the table), all i see is DML error i.e.

ORA-01403: no data found 
ORA-06512: at "DBNAME.PRODUCT_COPY_PACKAGE", line 1808 
ORA-24381: error(s) in array DML 
ORA-06512: at "DBNAME.PRODUCT_COPY_PACKAGE", line 84 
ORA-06512: at line 3 

could you guys suggest whats going on?

P.S:

here is the definition for S_Publish. There is no “raise” in the S_Publish.

  PROCEDURE S_Publish (i_type IN VARCHAR2, 
                         i_msg IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL) IS
  BEGIN

    CASE

       WHEN i_type = 'G' THEN
         IF g_debug_flag
         THEN
           INSERT INTO logtable (tstamp,line) values (SYSDATE, i_msg);
           COMMIT;
           g_counter := 0;
         END IF;

       WHEN i_type = 'F' THEN
         g_err_code  := SQLCODE;
         g_err_msg   := TO_CHAR(g_err_code)||' '||SUBSTR(SQLERRM, 1, 100);
         INSERT INTO logtable (tstamp,line) values (SYSDATE, g_err_msg);
         COMMIT;

       WHEN i_type = 'I' THEN
         INSERT INTO logtable (tstamp,line) values (SYSDATE, i_msg);
         COMMIT;
         g_counter := 0;

    END CASE;


  END S_Publish;

After little debugging thats what i have figured out so far. I don’t know whats ther eaosn behind it

So the problem is that the program exits no sooner it ends printing errors i.e. the FOR i IN 1..l_errors LOOP. The program exits at END LOOP. Why anything after that isn’t being executed?

Answer 1

So the problem was in S_Publish. the table it is referring to i.e. sap_tbl_ins is a 0 based. The SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS(i).ERROR_INDEX is basically the iteration number when this failed. So referring a 0 based index with a number is raising “array out of bound” exception. I just figured it out and changed the formula to

S_Publish('I', 'Failing Record ID is ' || sap_tbl_ins((SQL%BULK_EXCEPTIONS(i).ERROR_INDEX)-1).DEVICE_PIN);

and its working fine.