Calling stored function within select

Hi,
I am working with ODP.NET and Oracle 8.1.7 for two years now and I solved a lot of problems. But now I am really in trouble:
I need to call a stored function (that is within a package) from a select statement:
Here is a very simple test case (the real select is much more complicated)
select PFM.P_COSTING.CALC ( 0 ) from dual;
this works fine in TOAD, but When I try to do the same from C#/ODP.NET, I always get the following error:
ORA-00904: Invalid column name
Can anybody help?
Here my package (scheme is PFM):
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY P_Costing AS
FUNCTION Calc ( x number)
return number IS
BEGIN
RETURN 1;
END Calc;
END P_Costing;
thanks in advance
markus

It works fine for me, but you might not want to use "PFM.P_COSTING.CALC ( 0 )" as a column name.
Try aliasing the expression
select PFM.P_COSTING.CALC ( 0 ) result from dual;
David

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