do I have to set any parameters in the init.ora file, if so what are those and where can I find init.ora file ? I did exactly the same as you mentioned and still getting the same error.
Thanks, Sam On Jan 6, 9:30 am, ddf <orat...@msn.com> wrote: > On Jan 5, 11:43 pm, zalesam <bindu.rang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > In my procedure I am trying to read a table and write the content to a > > text file and store it in a directory. But I am getting this error. > > > ORA-29283: invalid file operation > > ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 475 > > ORA-29283: invalid file operation > > ORA-06512: at line 14 > > > create or replace PACKAGE BODY pkg_test AS > > DUMP_DIR CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'TEST_TEMP'; > > PROCEDURE dump_test(Filename IN VARCHAR2) IS > > c sys_refcursor; > > fout utl_file.file_type; > > > BEGIN > > > ------ > > ----- > > ---- > > fout := utl_file.fopen(DUMP_DIR, Filename, 'w', 32767); > > --- > > ---- > > END dump_test; > > END pkg_test; > > > I have created this directory using the following command. > > > CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY test_temp AS '/home/Sam/test_temp' > > > output > > --------- > > CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY succeeded. > > > on my file system I created test_temp (/home/Sam/)and gave read,write > > and execute Privileges. > > > In sql Developer I can see the directory created. But I am not sure > > what is going wrong. > > Please help. > > > Thanks, > > Sam > > You do have a package specification for this body? You don't show any > code to create one. > > Modifying your code slightly (to provide a package spec and use > Windows rather than Linux/UNIX) produces this: > > SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY test_temp AS 'c:\test_temp'; > > Directory created. > > SQL> > SQL> create or replace PACKAGE pkg_test AS > 2 > 3 PROCEDURE dump_test(Filename IN VARCHAR2); > 4 > 5 END pkg_test; > 6 / > > Package created. > > SQL> > SQL> create or replace PACKAGE BODY pkg_test AS > 2 > 3 DUMP_DIR CONSTANT VARCHAR2(30) := 'TEST_TEMP'; > 4 > 5 PROCEDURE dump_test(Filename IN VARCHAR2) IS > 6 c sys_refcursor; > 7 fout utl_file.file_type; > 8 > 9 BEGIN > 10 > 11 > 12 ------ > 13 ----- > 14 ---- > 15 fout := utl_file.fopen(DUMP_DIR, Filename, 'w', > 32767); > 16 --- > 17 ---- > 18 END dump_test; > 19 > 20 END pkg_test; > 21 / > > Package body created. > > SQL> > SQL> exec pkg_test.dump_test('yarg') > > PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. > > SQL> $ls -l c:\test_temp > total 0 > -rw-rw-rw- 1 user group 0 Jan 6 11:27 yarg > > SQL> > > I can't get it to fail. You need to provide more information before > anyone can see what you're doing incorrectly. > > David Fitzjarrell --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle PL/SQL" group. To post to this group, send email to Oracle-PLSQL@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oracle-plsql-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Oracle-PLSQL?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---