Forum OpenACS Development: Problem with the Oracle database

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Posted by Rodrigo C on
Hello everyone, I'am dealing with a problem with the database and I'am realy giving up to it.
I have this two tables:
create table rooms (
      room_id    integer primary key,
      capacity  integer,
      room_name    varchar(100) not null,
      comments        varchar(200)
);

create table reserve (
      reserve_id    integer primary key,
      room_id      not null references rooms,
      user_id      not null references users,
      start_time    timestamp(0),
      end_time      timestamp(0),
      people        integer
);

In a tcl script if I do somethin like this:
db_foreach foo "select * from rooms" {.....
everything is fine, but if I try some thing like:
db_foreach foo "select * from reserve" {...
I get an error like this:
Database operation "getrow" failed (exception 1406, "nsoracle.c:2055:ora_get_row: error in `OCIStmtFetch ()': ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated

I apreciate if someone can help me. ThX

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Posted by Andrew Piskorski on
What versions of AOLserver and nsoracle are you using?
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Posted by Rodrigo C on
OK I'am not shure how to request that information, when I enter in sqlplus it displays: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0
Now, the aolserver version I don't now how to chek out that; I belive it is something like 3.3 but not shure.
OpenAcs Version 5.0.4 Final.
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Posted by Rodrigo C on
Here is an other problem, im doing the problem sets of the education section in OpenACS. A query like this runs well:

db_multirow reporte cosilla "select rm.room_name as room_name, trunc(sum(to_date(to_char(rv.end_time,'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI'),'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI') -
to_date(to_char(rv.start_time,'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI'),'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI')),4) as hours_reserved,
trunc(avg(rv.people),4) as people_avg  from reserve rv, rooms rm where rm.room_id=rv.room_id group by room_name"

I now it is a bit heavy, but it is the only way I found to work with timestamps ;)

But in the .adp I need the room_id, so I add in the query:
....select rm.room_id ,rm.room_name as .....

But it is imposible to get the room_id in the multirow, it throws this:
nsoracle.c:3904:ora_tcl_command: error in `OCIStmtExecute ()': ORA-00918: column ambiguously defined

SQL: select !>>>!room_id,rm.room_name as room_name,  trunc(sum(to_date(to_char(rv.end_time,'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI'),'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI') -  to_date(to_char(rv.start_time,'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI'),'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI')),4) as hours_reserved,  trunc(avg(rv.people),4) as people_avg  from reserve rv, rooms rm where rm.room_id=rv.room_id group by room_name
    while executing
"ns_ora select nsdb0 {select ...

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Posted by Ola Hansson on
The "!>>>!" in the error message usually points directly to the actual problem.

Maybe try "select rm.room_id,rm.room_name as room_name, ..."?

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Posted by Sebastiano Pilla on
Just a guess, but... You have timestamps (a 9i-feature) columns in your table, but the nsoracle driver doesn't know how to handle them.

What happens if you change the timestamps columns to dates? I don't know if you really need the millisecond-precision that the timestamp datatype has, perhaps the second-precision of the date datatype is enough for you to solve your problem.

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Posted by Samer Abukhait on
and also
group by rm.room_id, rm.room_name
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Posted by Rodrigo C on
The second problem was solved with the group by rm.room_id,rm.room_name, thanks Samer; but the original problem is not solved, I get it in a diferent query, look:

Query:
db_multirow reporte foo "select rm.room_name as room_name, pa.email, rv.start_time, rv.end_time, rv.people from reserve rv, rooms rm, parties pa where rv.room_id=$room_id and rm.room_id=rv.room_id and pa.party_id=rv.user_id"

The error:
Database operation "getrow" failed (exception 1406, "nsoracle.c:2055:ora_get_row: error in `OCIStmtFetch ()': ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated

SQL: [nil]")
    while executing
"ns_db getrow $db $selection"
    invoked from within
"db_getrow $db $selection"
    ("while" body line 4)
    invoked from within
"while { 1 } {

            if { $more_rows_p } {
                set more_rows_p [db_getrow $db $selection]
            } else {
                break..."
    ("uplevel" body line 16)

"Thanks in for your help"
Rodrigo C.

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Posted by Brian Fenton on
Rodrigo, Sebastiano told you the problem and the answer. You have to change your start_time and end_time TIMESTAMP columns to DATEs. Try it and let us know what happens.

Brian