Un-helpful error message

Running Toad 9.7.2.5. I know there are bugs in this version and I am wondering if this is another. When I try and compile my procedure I get “Warning: compiled but with compilation errors”, but the little "description window does not pop-up. That is all I have to go on. The problem ended up being a structure issue with the procedure. I had

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FixBrokenLines2 IS

Blah Blah

END FixBrokenLines; – Without the “2”

Is Oracle/Toad incapable of giving a better error message? This is not the first instance where I have gotten this “unhelpful” message. What I had to do last time was comment out lines 1 by 1 until I discovered it. This time I started started down that path (tedious).

Executing as a script (F5), you receive the same error in Toad as you would in SQLPlus. That is by design since F5 functionality is there to emulate SQLPlus
as closely as possible.

Try using F9 instead. I can’t remember back to the 9.7 days but in 11.0+ versions, you get a much more descriptive error message.

Greg

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Un-helpful error message

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Running Toad 9.7.2.5. I know there are bugs in this version and I am wondering if this is another. When I try and compile my procedure I get “Warning: compiled but with compilation errors”,
but the little "description window does not pop-up. That is all I have to go on. The problem ended up being a structure issue with the procedure. I had

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE FixBrokenLines2 IS

Blah Blah

END FixBrokenLines; – Without the “2”

Is Oracle/Toad incapable of giving a better error message? This is not the first instance where I have gotten this “unhelpful” message. What I had to do last time was comment out lines 1 by 1 until I
discovered it. This time I started started down that path (tedious).

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Isn’t the offending line highlighted when you compile it? It is for me.

Gregory, F9 does nothing.

John, Only centers the line I was on originally (which is high-lighted).

On F9 the parser has probably caught the syntax error and Toad is blocking the execution. That was the case for a release or two and it has since been changed to send the statement to Oracle even if the parser indicates error. It’s been fixed in a newer release.