Rowid data type

Question

Hi All,
I pass rowid from select stmt to update stmt in plsql, so update is quicker. There is bunch of if else statements before update is issued.
Question is I declared v_rowid to be varchar2 and it gives me numeric error. Should I declare it as rowid data type ? Do I have to worry about the size ?
Thanks for any help
Vissu

Answer 1

I am not sure For me it is working
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL>  declare
  2   r rowid;
  3   begin
  4   select rowid into r from t where rownum<2;
  5   end;
  6  /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1   declare
  2   r rowid;
  3   begin
  4   select rowid into r from t1 where rownum<2;
  5*  end;
SQL> /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> r
  1   declare
  2   r rowid;
  3   begin
  4   select rowid into r from t1 where rownum<2;
  5*  end;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> Message was edited by:
devmiral