DBMS_METADATA carraige returns in generated script problem

Question

Hi,
does anyone know how to change the line length of the ddl generated by the DBMS_METADATA package. I'm trrying to generate ddl for a set of tables but when its generated i get the following problem
CREATE TABLE "MYUSER"."APP_SEARCH"
(     "USER_ID" NUMBER(5,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "SEARCH_ID" NUMBER(5,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "COMMENTS" VARCHAR2(100),
     "CRITERIA" LONG,
     "SEARCH_NAME" VARCHAR2(60),
     "DATE_CREATED" DATE,
     CONSTRAINT "PK_APP_SEARCH" PRIMARY KEY ("USER_ID", "SEARCH_ID")
USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 TABLESPACE "TS_PK_INDEX_APPLIC
ATION_SMALL" ENABLE
) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 LOGGING TABLESPACE "TS_APPLIC
ATION_SMALL"
The problem being the TS_APPLICATION_SMALL table space name goes across 2 lines, since I am generating this into a script to be run later, the script doesn't work as it thinks the tablespace name is TS_APPLIC. I think the DBMS_METADAT package uses a fixed varchar2 width when createing the ddl inside the returned CLOB. Any ideas on how to get around this?
Many Thanks,
Trev.

Answer 1

Joel,
thanks for the feedback,
I'm using the following script to generate the required create table script:
set linesize 4000
set heading off;
set echo off;
Set pages 0;
set long 90000;
spool createdummytable.sql
execute DBMS_METADATA.SET_TRANSFORM_PARAM( DBMS_METADATA.SESSION_TRANSFORM,'STORAGE',false);
select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE','APP_SEARCH')||';' from dual;
execute DBMS_METADATA.SET_TRANSFORM_PARAM(DBMS_METADATA.SESSION_TRANSFORM,'DEFAULT');
spool off
set heading on
set feedback on
exit
But even with the linesize set to 4000 I get the same problem. I wanted to generate the script on the client not on the server using DBMS_OUTPUT, any ideas and many thanks again,
Trev