Bug #11550: Cannot return a NULL as out parameter of a stored procedure

From: g.giunta@libero.it Operating system: Windows 95; SCO Openserver 5.0.5 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Oracle related Bug description: Cannot return a NULL as out parameter of a stored procedure Returning a NULL value as an OUT parameter of a stored procedure (oracle 7.3.4 both client & server) I get the following error from a call to ora_exec: ORA-01405: fetched column value is NULL -- while processing OCI function OEXEC/OEXN I've checked the parameter is correctly bound to a php global variable. I tried defining the same parameter both as OUT and IN_OUT, to no avail. I also tried calling the same exact procedure using oci_ functions instead of ora_, and everything works! (Unfortunately my web server is sitting on a sco box, so I'm doomed to use oracle 7.3.4 in production...) Looking at the description of the error in oracle manuals, I think this could be a pbl in the use of pro*C (well, whatever the php oracle extension is written with), but I might be wrong -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=11550&edit=1