Question

I’ve got an SQL-script executed by SQL*Plus, that needs to run with Oracle 10g and Oracle 11g.

That script gives grants on a package that does not exist before 11g:

GRANT EXECUTE ON sys.dbms_result_cache TO my_user;

I would like to avoid the exception on 10g, since I want to react to other exceptions in the script.

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One way is to use Conditional Compilation and dbms_db_version:

BEGIN
  $IF dbms_db_version.ver_le_10 $THEN NULL; $ELSE
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'GRANT EXECUTE ON sys.dbms_result_cache TO my_user';
  $END
END;
/

Is there any other way, preferable without using PL/SQL?

Answer 1

Your question and one of the comments indicate that you want to avoid PL/SQL blocks and EXECUTE IMMEDIATE. I also assume that by “react to other exceptions” you mean abort execution of the script when an exception is encountered.

If so, I think the best you can do in pure SQL/SQL*Plus is to ignore the exception exit for the grant statement:

... first part of script (with exit on sqlerror in effect)
WHENEVER SQLERROR CONTINUE
GRANT EXECUTE ON sys.dbms_result_cache TO my_user;
WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT SQL.SQLCODE
... remaining part of script