FORALL insert error

Question

Hi,
I am using 10g.
I am inserting emp table records into emp_temp table using FORALL, i am getting some implementation restriction error while doing this.
DECLARE
CURSOR EMP_CUR IS
SELECT * FROM EMP;
TYPE TAB_EMP_CUR IS TABLE OF EMP%ROWTYPE;
V_TAB TAB_EMP_CUR;
BEGIN
OPEN EMP_CUR;
FETCH EMP_CUR BULK COLLECT
INTO V_TAB;
FORALL I IN 1 .. V_TAB.COUNT
INSERT INTO EMP_TEMP
VALUES
(V_TAB(I).ENO,
V_TAB(I).ENAME,
V_TAB(I).JOB,
V_TAB(I).MGR,
V_TAB(I).SAL,
V_TAB(I).COMM,
V_TAB(I).HIREDATE,
V_TAB(I).DEPTNO);
CLOSE EMP_CUR;
END;
please look into this.
Thanks,
Vinod

Answer 1

Hi User,
The error
implementation restriction: cannot reference fields of BULK In-BIND table of recordsis because bulk bind cannot use table of composite types.
Please See the below,
http://dba-blog.blogspot.com/2005/08/using-of-bulk-collect-and-forall-for.html
And rewrite your code like this,
DECLARE
   CURSOR EMP_CUR
   IS
      SELECT EMPNO, ENAME
        FROM EMP;
   TYPE TAB_EMP_EMPNO IS TABLE OF EMP.EMPNO%TYPE;
   V_TAB_EMPNO   TAB_EMP_EMPNO;
   TYPE TAB_EMP_ENAME IS TABLE OF EMP.ENAME%TYPE;
   V_TAB_ENAME   TAB_EMP_ENAME;
BEGIN
   OPEN EMP_CUR;
   FETCH EMP_CUR BULK COLLECT INTO V_TAB_EMPNO, V_TAB_ENAME;
   FORALL I IN V_TAB_EMPNO.FIRST .. V_TAB_EMPNO.LAST
      INSERT INTO EMP_TEMP
                  (EMPNO, ENAME
           VALUES (V_TAB_EMPNO (I), V_TAB_ENAME (I)
   CLOSE EMP_CUR;
END;Thanks,
Shankar