Errors in simple query in oracle 9i personal edition

Question

hi,
i have oracle 9i personal edition release 9.0.1.1.1 - production.
with it came sql*plus release 9.0.1.0.1 - production
i have installed it on windows 98SE
what i did is the following
step 1:
create type address_ty as object
(street varchar2(50),
city varchar2(50),
state char(2),
zip number);
when i executed i got message "type created"
step 2 :
create table customer
(cust_id number ,
person address_ty);
when i executed this i got message "table created"
step 3 :
insert into customer values
(3,address_ty('xyz','abc','AP',4563));
i get messsage "1 row created"
step 4 :
select cust_id,person.street from customer;
i get error message .......
select cust_id,person.street from customer;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: invalid column name
i tried this example from the book "Oracle Complete Reference" from oracle press.
what is the problem how to avoid it.
i am a beginner help
gopal

Answer 1

hi! i'm not very sure, but your second field selected is person.street, do you have this field?
why not try just select * from tablename, you should see the result.
hope that helps.
rgds.