Missing some error messages from the error stack

Question

Hi all,
We use some PL/SQL code to load data in to the database.
One value was to large for a column.
I got the errors below, but there are some messages missing from the alert file and from the trace file.
Error messages:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column
That's it, noting else. I can't see anything else in the alert log either.
No trace files either.
Can someone please explain to me why am i missing the rest of the error stack, like the column name where the issue occurs?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Peter,
No your code won't work the same in 10g as it would in 9i and earlier. The -1401 exception is not secretly catching -12899 now. So that means it could be an upgrade issue: you'd have to manually change the code when upgrading to 10.
Here is a little test on 10.2.0.1:
SQL> create table t
  2  ( id number(2)
  3  , name varchar2(2)
  4  )
  5  /
Tabel is aangemaakt.
SQL> declare
  2    my_exception exception;
  3    pragma exception_init(my_exception,-1401);
  4  begin
  5    insert into t values (99,'AAA');
  6  exception
  7  when my_exception then
  8    dbms_output.put_line('my error message');
  9  end;
10  /
declare
FOUT in regel 1:
.ORA-12899: waarde te groot voor kolom "RWIJK"."T"."NAME" (huidige waarde: 3, maximumwaarde: 2)
ORA-06512: in regel 5Regards,
Rob.