Package / procedure privileges

Question

In a manual, I found:
"Database applications explicitly call packaged procedures as necessary. After being granted the privileges for the package, a user can explicitly execute any of the procedures contained in it."
But this is not working for me. I have a developer that still cannot execute a procedure inside a package, after I granted him execute rights on the package.
He is still getting an insufficient privileges error. Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Hi,
SQL> conn scott/tiger
Connected.
SQL> create or replace package test_pack as
2 procedure proc1(a number);
3 procedure proc2(b number);
4 function func1(a number) return number;
5 end;
6 /
Package created.
SQL> create or replace package body test_pack as
2 procedure proc1(a number) is
3 begin
4 null;
5 end;
6 procedure proc2(b number) is
7 begin
8 null;
9 end;
10 function func1(a number) return number as
11 begin
12 return (a +10);
13 end;
14 end;
15 /
Package body created.
SQL> select test_pack.func1(4) from dual;
TEST_PACK.FUNC1(4)
14
SQL> exec test_pack.proc1(1);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> grant execute on test_pack to test;
Grant succeeded.
Now connect as TEST user and execute the following:
SQL> conn test/test
Connected.
SQL> exec scott.test_pack.proc1(9);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select scott.test_pack.func1(2) from dual;
SCOTT.TEST_PACK.FUNC1(2)
12
Probably, you are not prefixing the package name with the owner (in my case SCOTT).