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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-13676

role_names->text causing problems under Oracle

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.9
    • 1.9
    • Roles / Access
    • None
    • Oracle
    • MOODLE_19_STABLE
    • MOODLE_19_STABLE

    Description

      Was testing a bit Moodle 1.9 under Oracle, when I got this error:

      ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected CLOB got CHAR

      SELECT r.id, COALESCE(rn.text, r.name) AS name FROM m_role r JOIN ( SELECT DISTINCT allowassign as allowedrole FROM m_role_allow_assign raa WHERE raa.roleid IN (3,1) ) ar ON r.id=ar.allowedrole JOIN m_role_capabilities rc ON (r.id = rc.roleid AND rc.capability = 'moodle/course:view' AND rc.capability != 'moodle/site:doanything') LEFT OUTER JOIN m_role_names rn ON (rn.roleid = r.id AND rn.contextid = 23) ORDER BY sortorder ASC

      It seems that the role_names->text field is of type TEXT (CLOB) and that prevents it to be used within COALESCE and other functions.

      If I'm not wrong that table, role_names, is exclusively used to name roles in a different way per context. If that is the only usage I would recommend to:

      1) create one new role_names->name char(255) not null field.
      2) copy current role_names->text contents to role_names->name
      3) drop role_names->text
      4) Change usages from the old field to the new one.

      That way the field will be better and his behaviour cross-db.

      Ciao

      P.S.: Raising this to critical... to alarm about it (prevents Oracle usage completely)

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              dougiamas Martin Dougiamas
              stronk7 Eloy Lafuente (stronk7)
              David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo
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                3/Mar/08