Error PLS-00355 occurs when open cursor in procedure

Question

Hello everybody,
I have a problen that really drives me mad:
Whenever I try to compile the following procedure, the Error "PLS-00355: use of pl/sql table not allowed in this context" occurs but I can't see what is wrong. I hope the wisdome of the community will help to solve the problem.
Here is the code:
CREATE or REPLACE PROCEDURE data_year(study_year IN NUMBER) AS
sep CONSTANT CHAR := ';';
CURSOR cursor_year(year_of_interest NUMBER) IS
select
BBS_CONDITIONS.COUNTRYNUM as country,
BBS_CONDITIONS.STATENUM as state,
BBS_CONDITIONS.ROUTE as route,
BBS_ROUTES.LATITUDE as lat,
BBS_ROUTES.LONGITUDE as lon,
BBS_SUMMARY.AOU as aou,
BBS_SPECIES.ENGLISH_COMMON_NAME as name,
BBS_SPECIES.MIGRATION_TYPE as migtype,
BBS_SUMMARY.SPECIESTOTAL as count,
BBS_CONDITIONS.MONTH as smonth,
BBS_CONDITIONS.STARTTIME as starttime,
BBS_CONDITIONS.ENDTIME as endtime,
BBS_CONDITIONS.RPID as rpid,
BBS_CONDITIONS.ASSISTANT as assistant
from BBS_SPECIES,
BBS_ROUTES,
BBS_SUMMARY,
BBS_CONDITIONS
where BBS_ROUTES.ROUTE = BBS_CONDITIONS.ROUTE
and BBS_ROUTES.STATENUM = BBS_CONDITIONS.STATENUM
and BBS_ROUTES.COUNTRYNUM = BBS_CONDITIONS.COUNTRYNUM
and BBS_SPECIES.AOU = BBS_SUMMARY.AOU
and BBS_CONDITIONS.YEAR = BBS_SUMMARY.YEAR
and BBS_CONDITIONS.ROUTE = BBS_SUMMARY.ROUTE
and BBS_CONDITIONS.STATENUM = BBS_SUMMARY.STATENUM
and BBS_CONDITIONS.COUNTRYNUM = BBS_SUMMARY.COUNTRYNUM
and BBS_SPECIES.CLASS_ID = 0
and BBS_CONDITIONS.YEAR = year_of_interest
order by country, state, route, migtype, aou;
rec_year cursor_year%ROWTYPE;
i NUMBER := 1;
TYPE table_year_type IS TABLE OF cursor_year%ROWTYPE;
table_year table_year_type;
BEGIN -- Begin of procedure data_year
table_year := table_year();
OPEN cursor_year(study_year);
LOOP
FETCH cursor_year into rec_year;
EXIT WHEN cursor_year%NOTFOUND;
table_year.EXTEND(1);
table_year(i) := rec_year;
i := i+1;
END LOOP;
CLOSE cursor_year;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('country' || sep || 'state' || sep || 'route' || sep || 'lat' || sep || 'lon'
|| sep || 'aou' || sep || 'name' || sep || 'migtype' || sep || 'count' || sep || 'month' || sep
|| 'starttime' || sep || 'endtime' || sep || 'rpid' || sep || 'assistant');
FOR i in table_year.FIRST..table_year.LAST LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(TO_CHAR(table_year(i).country) || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).state) ||
sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).route) || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).lat) || sep ||
TO_CHAR(table_year(i).lon) || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).aou) || sep ||
table_year(i).name || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).migtype) || sep ||
TO_CHAR(table_year(i).count) || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).smonth) || sep ||
TO_CHAR(table_year(i).starttime) || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).endtime) || sep ||
TO_CHAR(table_year(i).rpid) || sep || TO_CHAR(table_year(i).assistant));
END LOOP;
END; -- End of procedure data_year
Thanks ahead, TC

Answer 1

Does it give a line number? I'm wondering if it might be
table_year := table_year();
that's causing the problem. Try removing it and see.
Even better, change your code to
   TYPE table_year_type IS TABLE OF cursor_year%ROWTYPE INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;
   table_year     table_year_type;
BEGIN        
    OPEN cursor_year (study_year);
    FETCH cursor_year BULK COLLECT INTO table_year;
    CLOSE cursor_year;
...Edited by: Dave Hemming on Nov 21, 2008 9:51 AM