How can a type defined in a PL/SQL package be used by an object?

Question

How can a type defined in a PL/SQL package be used by an object?
In the PL/SQL Reference manual it says that object attributes can be
types defined inside a PL/SQL package: How do you make this work?
Here is a sample that demonstrates what I am trying to do:
CREATE OR REPLACE
PACKAGE Phone IS
TYPE Phone_rectype IS RECORD (
Main VARCHAR2(12),
Home VARCHAR2(12),
Business VARCHAR2(12),
Mobile VARCHAR2(12),
Fax VARCHAR2(12),
Pager VARCHAR2(12)
END Phone;
CREATE OR REPLACE
TYPE customer_type
AS OBJECT (
CustNo NUMBER,
CustName VARCHAR2(30),
PhoneNumber Phone.Phone_rectype
This is the error that i get:
Warning: Type created with compilation errors.
Errors for TYPE CUSTOMER_TYPE:
LINE/COL ERROR
0/0 PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated
5/15 PLS-00201: identifier 'PHONE.PHONE_RECTYPE' must be declared
null

Answer 1

That's a good point, Justin - thanks for the advice. At the moment, our process of data validation isn't very well defined, so the table definitions aren't always the same beyond a core set. As we get more automated and able to develop table definitions flexible enough to accomodate all the quirks in client data, I may be able to consider moving to a single schema to take advantage of maintenance and performance improvements. My ultimate concern with doing that is that the datasets we're dealing with can be tens of millions of rows in size. Clearly, I'm no DBA, but I just assumed that we would be able to churn through these datasets faster if they were in a schema by themselves rather than lumped together into one huge half-a-billion row table?