How to declare a global variable from a PL/SQL package

Hi All,
Using a global variable is a bad practise for all language. However, in my case, I have a PL/SQL package defines all constants, and I want to use them directly via SQL statement, for instance,
PACKAGE my_const
IS
DEFAULT_ZIP_CODE CONSTANT VARCHAR2(5) := '00000';
END;And I cannot referrence this variable from my select statement as
SELECT my_const.DEFAULT_ZIP_CODE from dual;I have to create a function via my package, as,
FUNCTION get_default_zip_code RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
BEGIN
RETURN DEFAULT_ZIP_CODE;
END;and
SELECT my_const.get_default_zip_code from dual;I don't want to create functions to referrence the default varaibles. Does anyone have any clues?
thanks
Edited by: user4184769 on Jul 19, 2010 8:36 AM

riedelme wrote:
thanks for the info. Your scope explanation makes sense even though it is not intuitive to me. I think the usage of package variables should be supported by SQL (they're just values to be copied) Maybe look at it from another language's perspective. You want to use a global PL package variable in Java/C#/Delphi/VB/etc. How would you do it?
None of these languages can crack open the data segment of a PL code unit, inspect the variables in it, and extract a value from it. Instead, it needs to be done as follows:
Using sqlplus as the client illustrates how all these languages will need to do it:
SQL> var value varchar2(20);
SQL> begin
2> :value := SomePackage.someVar;
3> end;
4> /So why should SQL behave differently? It is not the same as the PL language. It is not a subset of the PL language. Yeah, PL/SQL blurs the line between these 2 languages making it very simple for us to mix their source code. But PL/SQL is SQL integrated with PL - not PL integrated with SQL. PL has tight hooks into SQL, creating cursors for you, defining bind variables, binding variables and doing the whole Oracle Call Interface bit for you.
But SQL has no need for PL code, just as it has no need for Java code, or Delphi code or VB code. Yes, it is possible for it to call Java stored procs. As it is possible for it to call PL procs. But these are via the formal call interface of those languages - not via tight integration hooks that blur the languages and make SQL and Java, or SQL and PL, look like a single integrated source code unit.
Thus SQL has the pretty much the same constraints in calling the PL language as other languages do. What SQL can do is use the PL engine's call interface and tell it "+execute this function and return the result of the function+".

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