Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Mike Mascari wrote:>>
>>Oracle isn't processing those statements interactively. SQL*Plus
>>is waiting on the "/" to send the PL/SQL block to the database.
>>I suspect its not going to take Oracle more than a second to
>>insert a row...
>
>
> Oh, I understand now. He delayed when entering the function body, but
> that has no effect when he sends it. Can someone add an explicit sleep
> in the function body and try that?
>
SQL> create table foo (a date);
Table created.
SQL> begin 2 insert into foo select sysdate from dual; 3 dbms_lock.sleep(5); 4 insert into foo select sysdate
fromdual; 5 end; 6 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select to_char(a, 'HH24:MI:SS') from foo;
TO_CHAR(
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11:31:02
11:31:07
Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com
