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

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

    We encounter this error when an night unix executing the stored procedure and the error is catched by exception handling and logged
    in the log table .

    We try to re-create the envionment and re-execute , and no error.
    the testing environment is build up in the same structure and same
    data ( on the other words , it is a clone of live environemnt).
    the code is reviewed and we didn't find any lines which looks like 'mismatched variable/column length issue' . So I was thinking whether it could be a kind of oracle internal bug ?

    our db is oracle9.0.6 on solaris9.
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    Can you debug your code? I had met the same error long time ago, I remember the reason is there are some blanks before the value, You'd better trim your variable before convert it into another type.

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    We debug and review the code very carefully . And I don't see any problem with the length of variable or db column . And if the procedure is executing again , the error will disappear . ( same environment )

    I found this error can be generated by [ Bug 4015165 ] which detail can be revealed in [Note:4015165.8 ] from metalink.
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