Timestamp keyword or reserved keyword

Question

This is actualy a definition question...
consider a table having a timestamp column named timestamp and the v$reserved_words view in oracle 10.
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
CREATE TABLE TF
(timestamp timestamp);(timestamp is a keyword according to the v$reserved_words_view)
and a procedure to delete data from it
BEGIN
DELETE TF;
END;
/produces this output
delete tf;
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-06550: line 2, column 8:
PL/SQL: ORA-06552: PL/SQL: Compilation unit analysis terminated
ORA-06553: PLS-320: the declaration of the type of this expression is
incomplete or malformed
ORA-06550: line 2, column 1:
PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignoredThis fails to compile.... I would think timestamp is a reserved keyword instead of a normal keyword.

Answer 1

Zpuit wrote:
Lukasz,
I think it should have replied this:
SQL> SELECT * FROM v$reserved_words WHERE keyword = 'TIMESTAMP';
KEYWORD                            LENGTH R R R R D
TIMESTAMP                               9 Y N N N Nand i already know this falls into a hair-splitting category of things. The reservered words view contains both keywords and reserved keywords. According to the definition (as I interpret it) Reserved keywords cannot be used in table and columnnames. Keywords should not be used as identifiers and
keywords might be promoted to reserved keywords in a future release (which is the question I am asking but for this release). It only fails in PLSQL, I know it works fine in SQL.Bottom line: never user either reserved words or key words as identifiers. Regardless of how oracle handles it, it just makes for confusion when reading and debugging code. If shops had strong naming standards (an idea that seems to have gone the way of the buggy whip) this would not even be an issue.