We have run into an issue with array processing in 11g. The developer was using execute_array and his sql statement had 'LOG ERRORS' in it. This did not error out until we switched to 11g. The issue is that only one is allowed, either 'LOG ERRORS' or 'SAVE EXCEPTIONS'. Our DBA logged and error report with Oracle and after several posts back and forth this is what they concluded,
====================================================================== After investigation and discussion, development has closed the bug as 'Not a Bug' with the following reason: "this is an expected behavior in 11g and the user needs to specify either of 'SAVE EXCEPTIONS' clause or the 'DML error logging', but NOT both together. The batch error mode, in the context of this bug, is basically referring to the SAVE EXCEPTIONS clause. It seems the code is trying to use both dml error logging and batch error handling for the same insert. In that case, this is not a bug. For INSERT, the data errors are logged in an error logging table (when the dml error logging feature is used) or returned in batch error handles (when using batch mode). Since the error messages are available to the user in either case, there is no need to both log the error in the error logging table and return the errors in batch error handles, and we require the user to specify one option or the other but not both in 11G. Both features exist in 10.x. For 11.x, users should change their application to avoid the error. ====================================================================== So basically we need a way to turn off the 'SAVE EXCEPTIONS' for the batch mode. I found in dbdimp.c that the oci_mode is being set to OCI_BATCH_ERRORS in the ora_st_execute_array function. I was planning on setting it to OCI_BATCH_MODE and running a test to see if this will not error out. I report back when I have run the test, but I was wondering what would be the best way to give the user the ability to override the oci_mode. An attribute in the prepare method? Thanks, Scott
