photon - 8:02 pm on Jul 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the reply aspdaddy.

The issue is that I'm not building this from the ground up. The code I'm working on is part of an existing system, and I need to keep the changes to a minimum (it already takes us a couple of days to reapply all of our local changes when a new upgrade come along).

It almost seems like that in the entire history of Oracle, no one has ever needed to break out of the normal propagation of control of "sub-procedures" back up through the calling procs. But so far my searches have been fruitless.