Bulk collect statement is not working

Question

Hi
I am executing the following scripts
declare     
     Type r_info is record
     name varchar2(1000),
     value varchar2(1000),
     TL varchar2(100),
     id varchar2(100)
     Type t_info is table of r_info;
     l_info t_info;
begin
          SELECT name, value,TL,id
          bulk collect into l_info
          FROM table1;
end;
it's giving me the following error. Could you please guide me?
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
PL/SQL: ORA-00947: not enough values

Answer 1

But now look closely at this:
SQL>select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production
CORE    9.2.0.8.0       Production
TNS for IBM/AIX RISC System/6000: Version 9.2.0.8.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 9.2.0.8.0 - Production
SQL>set serveroutput on
SQL>declare
  2     type r_info is record(
  3        name    varchar2(1000),
  4        value   varchar2(1000),
  5        tl      varchar2(100),
  6        id      varchar2(100)
  7     );
  8
  9     type t_info is table of r_info;
10
11     l_info   t_info;
12  begin
13     select name,
14            value,
15            tl,
16            id
17     bulk collect into l_info
18       from (select 'a' as name, 'a' as value, 'a' as tl, 'a' as id
19               from dual);
20     dbms_output.put_line(l_info(1).name);
21  end;
22  /
a
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.So, at least in 9.2.0.8.0, Oracle creates a record from these four values automatically and inserts it into the collection.
Wouldn't it be interesting to see what "DESC table1" tells? Maybe value has a composite type...
Urs