6502 error

A strange error..
We get 6502 error in the before report trigger of a report.
Closing the Reports background engine and re-running the report does not give the ORA-6502 error in the BEFORE REPORT trigger.
Can some one tell me what could be the possible reason for this?
The before report trigger deletes a particular table and re-inserts the result of a query inside the table.
Around 10000 records are involved in the deletion and insertion.

Hi Padhma Shree,
Which version of Reports are you using? I see that this error ORA-6502 had been reported in some old versions of Reports. In one of the bugs for this error I found:
In the example testcase given, the procedure has an out parameter of type char. Changing this to varchar2 resolved the >> problem.-------------
Also, Metalink has some information on common causes of this error:
commonly known issues, namely :-
a) ORA-6502 PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small Easily generated if trying to assign a string of length X to a variable of type VARCHAR/VARCHAR2 that is less than X.
b) ORA-6502 PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion error Easily generated if trying to assign a non-numeric character to a variable of type NUMBER.
Also see Note 139548.1 on Metalink
http://metalink.oracle.com
Hope it helps.
Navneet.

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