Oracle Spatial User's Guide and Reference - InfoLab

Transactional Insert Operations Using SQL
variable, and the host variable can be built using the SDO_GEOMETRY constructor
with more than 999 values in the SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY specification. (The host
variable is an OCI, PL/SQL, or Java program variable.)
To perform transactional insertions of geometries, you can create a procedure to
insert a geometry, and then invoke that procedure on each geometry to be inserted.
Example 3–4 creates a procedure to perform the insert operation.
Example 3–4 Procedure to Perform a Transactional Insert Operation
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE
INSERT_GEOM(GEOM SDO_GEOMETRY)
IS
BEGIN
INSERT INTO TEST_1 VALUES (GEOM);
COMMIT;
END;
/
Using the procedure created in Example 3–4, you can insert data by using a
PL/SQL block, such as the one in Example 3–5, which loads a geometry into the
variable named geom and then invokes the INSERT_GEOM procedure to insert that
geometry.
Example 3–5 PL/SQL Block Invoking a Procedure to Insert a Geometry
DECLARE
geom SDO_geometry :=
SDO_geometry (2003, null, null,
SDO_elem_info_array (1,1003,3),
SDO_ordinate_array (-109,37,-102,40));
BEGIN
INSERT_GEOM(geom);
COMMIT;
END;
/
For additional examples with various geometry types, see the following:
■ Rectangle: Example 2–2 in Section 2.3.1
■ Polygon with a hole: Example 2–3 in Section 2.3.2
■ Compound polygon: Example 2–5 in Section 2.3.4
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