1.5 - Apparent SQL parsing issue...

Question

Hi,
After installing the 1.5 release - I noticed that some INSERT statements that had worked fine in 1.2 were suddenly failing with syntactical errors in 1.5. This occurs for the same exact database instance (an Oracle 10.2.0.3 Enterprise Edition for HP/UX Itanium database).
I am running 1.5 on Windows XP Professional.
Example:
This INSERT statement works fine in 1.2:
INSERT INTO joe
  ( a
  , b
  , c
SELECT
     a
  , NVL (b
        , a) AS b
  , NVL (c
        , a) AS c
FROM bill;But in 1.5 - it fails with error message:
"ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
00923. 00000 - "FROM keyword not found where expected"
*Cause:
*Action:
Error at Line:12 Column:11
Could you kindly confirm if there is an issue?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi PDaddy,
There appears to be a problem with blank lines confusion with continuation characters.
drop table joe;
create table joe(a varchar2(100), b varchar2(100), c varchar2(100));
drop table bill;
create table bill(a varchar2(100), b varchar2(100), c varchar2(100));
INSERT INTO joe
( a
, b
, c
SELECT
a
, NVL (b
, a) AS b
, NVL (c
, a) AS c
FROM bill;
Error starting at line 5 in command:
INSERT INTO joe
( a
SELECT
a
, a) AS b
, a) AS c
FROM bill
Error at Command Line:16 Column:11
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
00923. 00000 - "FROM keyword not found where expected"
*Cause:   
*Action:
Bug logged OTNFORUMS: BUG CONFUSING -- WITH CONTINUATION CHARACTER.
-- put some text here
is processed OK but
is currently broken.
Turloch