Is there any way to flush output from PL/SQL in Oracle?

Question

I have an SQL script that is called from within a shell script and takes a long time to run. It currently contains dbms_output.put_line statements at various po

Answer 1

If you have access to system shell from PL/SQL environment you can call netcat:

 BEGIN RUN_SHELL('echo "'||p_msg||'" | nc '||p_host||' '||p_port||' -w 5'); END;

p_msg - is a log message v_host is a host running python script that reads data from socket on port v_port.

I used this design when I wrote aplogr for real-time shell and pl/sql logs monitoring.