I recently created a procedure that is defined like this:
create or replace
PACKAGE
pkg_dml_legal_transactions
AS
PROCEDURE spm_update_court_cost(
p_court_state IN legal_court_cost.state%TYPE,
p_tran_code IN legal_court_cost.transaction_code%TYPE,
p_legal_court IN legal_court_cost.court%TYPE default null,
p_end_date IN legal_court_cost.end_date%TYPE,
p_cost_min IN legal_court_cost.cost_range_min%TYPE,
p_cost_max IN legal_court_cost.cost_range_max%TYPE,
p_bal_min IN legal_court_cost.bal_range_min%TYPE DEFAULT NULL,
p_bal_max IN legal_court_cost.bal_range_max%TYPE DEFAULT NULL);
end pkg_dml_legal_transactions;
When I attempt to execute
the procedure, I get an error stating that:
PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'SPM_UPDATE_COURT_COST'
Here is what my execute statement looks like:
execute pkg_dml_legal_transactions.spm_update_court_cost('NJ',1,sysdate,1000,40000);
Now I understand what the error means, but I figured if the parameters are defaulted to null then I could just skip them over, but apparently not. Is there a way around this?
In PL/SQL, you can call a procedure using either named parameter notation or positional notation. If you want to skip some parameters, you'll need to use named parameter notation
execute pkg_dml_legal_transactions.spm_update_court_cost( p_court_state => 'NJ',
p_tran_code => 1,
p_end_date => sysdate,
p_cost_min => 1000,
p_cost_max => 40000 );
Generally, when you're designing a procedure, you would put all the optional parameters at the end so that the caller could also use positional notation.