Oracle JDBC Driver 19c DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns Method Returns Wrong Column Count (Doc ID 2724009.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 09, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Given a PL/SQL function like this :

The getFunctionColumns method is supposed to return three records: one to describe the return type of the function, and two others records for each of the parameters.
But it returns wrong number of records.

The result may contain duplicate records:
DatabaseMetaData getFunctionColumns shows duplicate results when querying information about a function inside a package that contains other functions or procedures.

There is one extra set of results for each extra function or procedure in the PL/SQL package.

Cause

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