CREATE TYPE BODY Statement

Prerequisites

Every member declaration in the CREATE TYPE specification for an ADT must have a corresponding construct in the CREATE TYPE or CREATE TYPE BODY statement.

To create or replace a type body in your schema, you must have the CREATE TYPE or the CREATE ANY TYPE system privilege. To create a type in another user's schema, you must have the CREATE ANY TYPE system privilege. To replace a type in another user's schema, you must have the DROP ANY TYPE system privilege.

Syntax

create_type_body ::=

plsql_type_body_source ::=

See:

• "map_order_func_declaration ::="

• "subprog_decl_in_type ::="

subprog_decl_in_type ::=

proc_decl_in_type ::=

See:

• "body ::="

• "call_spec ::="

• "declare_section ::="

• "parameter_declaration ::="

func_decl_in_type ::=

See:

• "accessible_by_clause ::="

• "body ::="

• "call_spec ::="

• "declare_section ::="

• "invoker_rights_clause ::="

• "parameter_declaration ::="

• "relies_on_clause ::="

parallel_enable_cl_in_type ::=

streaming_cl_in_type ::=

constructor_declaration ::=

See "call_spec ::=".

map_order_func_declaration ::=

Semantics

OR REPLACE

Re-creates the type body if it exists, and recompiles it.

Users who were granted privileges on the type body before it was redefined can still access the type body without being regranted the privileges.

You can use this clause to add member subprogram definitions to specifications added with the ALTER TYPE ... REPLACE statement.

[ EDITIONABLE | NONEDITIONABLE ]

If you do not specify this property, then the type body inherits EDITIONABLE or NONEDITIONABLE from the type specification. If you do specify this property, then it must match that of the type specification.

schema

Name of the schema containing the type body. Default: your schema.

type_name

Name of an ADT.

subprog_decl_in_type

The type of function or procedure subprogram associated with the type specification.

You must define a corresponding method name and optional parameter list in the type specification for each procedure or function declaration. For functions, you also must specify a return type.

proc_decl_in_type, func_decl_in_type

A procedure or function subprogram declaration.

parallel_enable_cl_in_type

Indicates that the function can run from a parallel execution server of a parallel query operation. The function must not use session state, such as package variables, because those variables are not necessarily shared among the parallel execution servers. The parallel_enable_cl_in_type can appear only once in the function.

Use the optional PARTITION argument BY clause only with a function that has a REF CURSOR data type. This clause lets you define the partitioning of the inputs to the function from the REF CURSOR argument. Partitioning the inputs to the function affects the way the query is parallelized when the function is used as a table function in the FROM clause of the query.

ANY Indicates that the data can be partitioned randomly among the parallel execution servers

RANGE or HASH Partitions data into specified columns that are returned by the REF CURSOR argument of the function.

The optional streaming_cl_in_type lets you order or cluster the parallel processing.

ORDER BY or CLUSTER BY indicates that the rows on a parallel execution server must be locally ordered and have the same key values as specified by the column list.

expr identifies the REF CURSOR parameter name of the table function on which partitioning was specified, and on whose columns you are specifying ordering or clustering for each slave in a parallel query execution.

VALUE Specifies direct-key partitioning, which is intended for table functions used when executing MapReduce workloads. The column must be of data type NUMBER. VALUE distributes row processing uniformly over the available reducers.

If the column has more reducer numbers than there are available reducers, then PL/SQL uses a modulus operation to map the reducer numbers in the column into the correct range.

When calculating the number of the reducer to process the corresponding row, PL/SQL treats a negative value as zero and rounds a positive fractional value to the nearest integer.

constructor_declaration

A user-defined constructor subprogram declaration. The RETURN clause of a constructor function must be RETURN SELF AS RESULT. This setting indicates that the most specific type of the value returned by the constructor function is the most specific type of the SELF argument that was passed in to the constructor function.

declare_section

Declares items that are local to the procedure or function.

body

Procedure or function statements.

call_spec, EXTERNAL

See "call_spec" and "EXTERNAL".

map_order_func_declaration

You can declare either one MAP method or one ORDER method, regardless of how many MEMBER or STATIC methods you declare. If you declare either a MAP or ORDER method, then you can compare object instances in SQL.

If you do not declare either method, then you can compare object instances only for equality or inequality. Instances of the same type definition are equal only if each pair of their corresponding attributes is equal.

MAP MEMBER

Declares or implements a MAP member function that returns the relative position of a given instance in the ordering of all instances of the object. A MAP method is called implicitly and specifies an ordering of object instances by mapping them to values of a predefined scalar type. PL/SQL uses the ordering to evaluate Boolean expressions and to perform comparisons.

If the argument to the MAP method is null, then the MAP method returns null and the method is not invoked.

An type body can contain only one MAP method, which must be a function. The MAP function can have no arguments other than the implicit SELF argument.

ORDER MEMBER

Specifies an ORDER member function that takes an instance of an object as an explicit argument and the implicit SELF argument and returns either a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer, indicating that the implicit SELF argument is less than, equal to, or greater than the explicit argument, respectively.

If either argument to the ORDER method is null, then the ORDER method returns null and the method is not invoked.

When instances of the same ADT definition are compared in an ORDER BY clause, the database invokes the ORDER MEMBER func_decl_in_type.

An object specification can contain only one ORDER method, which must be a function having the return type NUMBER.

func_decl_in_type

A function subprogram declaration. See "CREATE PROCEDURE Statement" and "CREATE FUNCTION Statement" for the full syntax with all possible clauses.

EXTERNAL

Deprecated way of declaring a C method, supported only for backward compatibility. Oracle recommends that you use the LANGUAGE C syntax.

Examples

Several examples of creating type bodies appear in the Examples section of "CREATE TYPE Statement". For an example of re-creating a type body, see "Adding a Member Function: Example".

Related Topics

• "CREATE TYPE Statement"

• "DROP TYPE BODY Statement"

• "CREATE FUNCTION Statement"

• "CREATE PROCEDURE Statement"