Update Query with Results From another Procedure

Question

I am not sure if you can do this or what the proper format of the command might look like.
I have a stored procedure which insert records into a database. I want to insert the records which are returned by calling another procedure. This other procedure returns a cursor object to a variable named o_rows. Can this be done using Oracle 8i?
Insert into MyTable
MyStoredProcedure(oRows);

Answer 1

You have a couple of options.
1) You can turn your stored procedure into a pipelined table function. This would allow you to do something like
INSERT INTO myTable
  SELECT *
    FROM TABLE( myStoredProcedure() );I don't believe that pipelined table functions were available in 8i, however.
2) The other option would be to fetch rows from the cursor and insert those into your table. Something like
LOOP
  FETCH oRows INTO col1, col2, col3, col4, ...
  INSERT INTO myTable( <<column list>> )
    VALUES( col1, col2, col3, col4 );Note that for simplicity I am omitting the declarations of the local variables col1, col2, etc. and the check to see whether the cursor was exhausted.
Justin
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