Question

I’m attempting to create a procedure in Oracle Express Server (Application Express 2.1.0.00.39) using the web interface.

This is the SQL I’m running via the SQL Commands option in the web interface

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE my_procedure (listOfNumbers num_list, 
                                          v_value varchar2)

IS

  PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;

BEGIN

  UPDATE my_table
     SET my_column = v_value
   WHERE my_row_id IN (SELECT column_value 
                         FROM TABLE(listOfNumbers));

  COMMIT;

END;

UPDATE:

Changed SELECT column_value FROM TABLE to SELECT column_value FROM TABLE(listOfNumbers) but now I get the following error:

PLS-00201: identifier ‘num_list’ must
be declared

UPDATE 2:

Here is how I created my type:

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE  "num_list" as table of NUMBER(38,1)
/

Seems the error is being caused on the parameter declaration line:

(listOfNumbers num_list, v_value varchar2)

Below is the object details as displayed by the Oracle Database Express Edition web interface.

Answer 1

Try …TABLE(CAST(listOfNumbers AS num_list)).

The SQL parser simply sees a bind placeholder in place of listOfNumbers, and since it’s a custom type you need to tell it what type it is.

This will only work if num_list has been defined as a type in the schema, not just declared as a type in a PL/SQL block.