Message filtering in propagation process (stream replication environment)

Question

Hi!
We have fine configured stream replication in star topology:
ORCL2 <=> ORCL1 <=> ORCL3
Where the ORCL1 is "headquarters" and there is no message flow between ORCL2 and ORCL3.
For some reason we want to filter messages in propagation processes, e.g. DML captured on ORCL1 should be replicated only to ORCL2 or only to ORCL3. There is one propagation process for each "satellite" database.
To solve this problem I have written function:
FUNCTION Replicate_Lcr (
p_lcr IN SYS.lcr$_row_record)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
which will be making a decision whether to pass the message (return 'Y') or not (return 'N').
But there is problem: rule is evaluated and function is executed (there is insert into 'stream_log_lcr' table) but value of the expression seems to be 'FALSE' and message (LCR) is not beeing sent to ORCL2 (or to ORCL3).
When I remove function 'Replicate_Lcr' from propagation rule condition then every message captured by capture process on ORCL1 reaches destination database (ORCL2 or ORCL3).
The second observation is that, if I run the same code on ORCL2 or ORCL3 then everything seems to be OK: there is insert into 'stream_log_lcr' table and DML captured on ORCL2 (or ORCL3) appears in ORCL1 ("headquarters").
I suppose that this could be problem with other version of database on "headquarters" (ORCL1) or configuration issues.
I will appreciate every suggestion.
Databases:
ORCL1: 64-bit Windows, ver. 10.2.0.4.0, Windows 2008 server
ORCL2: 32-bit Windows, ver. 10.2.0.1.0, Windows XP
ORCL3: 32-bit Windows, ver. 10.2.0.1.0, Windows XP
SQL code run on ORCL1:
CREATE TABLE stream_log_lcr (
data DATE NOT NULL,
msg SYS.lcr$_row_record NOT NULL
-- simplified, always return 'Y'
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION Replicate_Lcr (
p_lcr IN SYS.lcr$_row_record)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;
BEGIN
IF p_lcr IS NOT NULL
THEN
INSERT INTO stream_log_lcr
VALUES (SYSDATE,
p_lcr);
COMMIT;
END IF;
RETURN 'Y';
END;
-- create propagation process with above function in rule condition
BEGIN
DBMS_STREAMS_ADM.add_schema_propagation_rules
(schema_name => 'data_schema',
streams_name => 'primary_to_secondary2',
source_queue_name => 'strmadmin.capture_primary',
destination_queue_name => 'strmadmin.from_primary@ORCL2',
include_dml => TRUE,
include_ddl => TRUE,
source_database => 'ORCL1',
and_condition => ' strmadmin.Replicate_Lcr(:dml) = ''Y'' ',
inclusion_rule => TRUE,
queue_to_queue => TRUE);
END;
-- check if function 'Replicate_Lcr' was evoked:
SELECT * FROM stream_log_lcr ORDER BY data;

Answer 1

hi porzer,
In Propagation process ( source) also 0 errors. But in apply ( dest ) under statistics under server status is displaying as IDLE. And Coordinator status is APPLYING. In Capture (source) no error. In Applying ( dest ) no error. what else i can do please?
up to now what i did i am telling:
I had 2 databases had one table same table. one database i changed the mode to ARCHIVELOG mode. Another database is in NOARCHIVELOG mode only. In first database setup streams i run. And i run manually 2 .sql files and one .dat file like this :
SQL>@e:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2\sysman\report\OTEST_ADMIN_NON_OMS_SETUP.sql
SQL>host e:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2\sysman\report\OTEST_ADMIN_NON_OMS_exportimport.bat
SQL>@e:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_2\sysman\report\OTEST_ADMIN_NON_OMS_startup.sql
Any thing else i can do? i didn't have metalink registration.i hope i am not boring you.
Thanks in advance.