PL/SQL Package with only Constants

Question

We have created a PL/SQL package with a Spec and NO BODY with only constant values.
When a user logs onto the Database for the first time, and runs a program the first time the "Constants" package is called you get a ORA-06502, but every time after the first there is no issues. This only happens the first the user logs onto the database ( Session based ).
Cory

Answer 1

You have a wrong declaration in your package, some like c2 in the following example.
EDV@mtso> create or replace package xxx
  2  is
  3    c1 number := 1;
  4    c2 number := 'aa';
  5    c3 number := 3;
  6  end;
  7  /
Package created.
EDV@mtso> var t number
EDV@mtso> exec :t := xxx.c1;
BEGIN :t := xxx.c1; END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion error
ORA-06512: at "EDV.XXX", line 4
ORA-06512: at line 1
EDV@mtso> print t
         T
EDV@mtso> exec :t := xxx.c1;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
EDV@mtso> print t
         T
         1
EDV@mtso> exec :t := xxx.c3;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
EDV@mtso> print t
         T
EDV@mtso> Note that constants declared before the errorous one have a value, constants declare after that one have no value.
Anton
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