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ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small

1048939Nov 5 2013 — edited Nov 5 2013

Hi,

I'm using the CLOB datatype for one of my columns which contains a huge sql statement running into more than five thousand words. When compiling I get no errors, but when running the proc, I get the below errors:

ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small

ORA-06512: at "RPT_POSITION_G", line 71

ORA-06512: at line 6

line 71, is the place where I initialize the CLOB variable with the sql statement.

Since, the variable is a CLOB variable, I don't understand why it is saying character string buffer is too small.

The version of the Oracle Database is 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production.

Can someone please point me what is going on here?

Thanks.

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