Oracle stored procedure call failed,but not captured by the error handling

Question

Hi All,
I have a unix shelll script which calls a stored proc in Oracle, the stored proc call failed due to "ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress".
But it is not captured in the error handling block, Any ideas why this had happened?
SQL file had : my_test_sql.sql
exec my_proc(..............);
Unix shell script has this call:
sqlplus -s my_user/my_pwd@db1 @my_test_sql.sql
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "failed"
exit 1
else
echo "success"
fi
If i execute the above shell, I'm getting the following
ERROR:
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
SP2-0306: Invalid option.
Usage: CONNÝECT¨ Ýlogon¨ ÝAS SYSDBA¨
where <logon> ::= <username>Ý/<password>¨Ý@<connect_identifier>¨ | /
success.
This puzzled me, any pointers?

Answer 1

The $? status variable shows the return code of the last command executed. It will be difficult to determine what the exit status of your sql script is without knowing the script. Do you have any "WHENEVER SQLERROR EXIT" statements in the script?
The ORA-01033 error happens when the database is not open, perhaps in recovery, or startup or shutdown is halted due to a failed or full disk, error in archiving or writing to redo, etc.