Issue with Anlytical Functions,Ref Cusor and Bulk Collect

Question

Hi All
pls go through the following code
declare
type salt is table of emp.sal%type index by binary_integer;
st salt;
type refc is ref cursor;
rc refc;
begin
open rc for 'select max(sal) over (Partition by deptno) as Sal from emp';
fetch rc bulk collect into st;
close rc;
for i in st.first..st.last loop
dbms_output.put_LINE(st(i));
end loop;
end;
When execute above code following error come :
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01001: invalid cursor
ORA-06512: at line 8
since Anlytical functions are not supported at pl/sql,i used the ref cursor,but these record are not allowed to collect in pl/sql table.
pls can one send a work around.
to insert recs into pl/sql table from anlytical function.
Thanks for Reading the Request
Raj Ganga
mail : [email protected]

Answer 1

Just ran it exactly as it is. It works.
I am on 9i which version are you using..
SQL> declare
2 type salt is table of emp.sal%type index by binary_integer;
3 st salt;
4 type refc is ref cursor;
5 rc refc;
6 begin
7 open rc for 'select max(sal) over (Partition by deptno) as Sal from emp';
8 fetch rc bulk collect into st;
9 close rc;
10 for i in st.first..st.last loop
11 dbms_output.put_LINE(st(i));
12 end loop;
13 end;
14 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> set serveroutput on
SQL> /
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PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.