Create Functions weirdness

Question

trying to create a function with the following
create or replace function pastClosedSales( repName IN VARCHAR2,
period IN NUMBER , cid IN VARCHAR2)
return NUMBER is grandTotal NUMBER(10,2) ;
begin
select sum(job_act_price) into grandTotal
from job
where to_period(job_finish_time) = period
and job_status = 5
and emp_code_srep = repName
and plant_code = cid ;
end ;
job is a publix synonym and can be used in an ordinary select statement
to_period is a function I've already created that works as expected
when I compile this I get errors like
4/1 PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
4/48 PL/SQL: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
Not sure why as I can take the SQL out of this and put values and things work fine

Answer 1

As explained above, you must grant the SELECT priv. explicitly to the user creating the function.
You probably have a role based access to the table, that is why it works within SQL*Plus. Try this:
SQL> set role none ;
SQL> select * from job ;Does that give you output? if not, you need to gratn the SELECT priv. explicitly.