Displaying message text from a stored procedure.

Within my stored procedures I am using DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE to output messages (error/warning/info/debug) but they are not displayed until the procedure has finnished. There is also the problem in that the amount of storage space for these message is limited (exceeding this limit can cause an OK procedure run to terminate with an error :( ).
Is there a better way that results in the 'displays' being made visible immediately?

dbms_output.put_line is not interactive and the message is limited to 1000000 the max size. you can write your own code as workaround such that capturing the message by inserting it into another log table.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Raymond Tang ([email protected]):
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