Listagg function and ORA-01489: result of string concatenation is too long

Question

When i run the following query:

 Select
  tm.product_id,
  listagg(tm.book_id || \'(\' || tm.score || \')\',\',\')
    within group (order by tm.product_id)          


        

Answer 1

Why not use nested tables?

set echo on;
set display on;
set linesize 200;

drop table testA;
create table testA
(
col1 number,
col2 varchar2(50)
);

drop table testB;
create table testB
(
col1 number,
col2 varchar2(50)
);

create or replace type t_vchar_tab as table of varchar2(50);

insert into testA values (1,'A');
insert into testA values (2,'B');

insert into testB values (1,'X');
insert into testB values (1,'Y');
insert into testB values (1,'Z');
commit;

-- select all related testB.col2 values in a nested table for each testA.col1 value
select a.col1, 
cast(multiset(select b.col2 from testB b where b.col1 = a.col1 order by b.col2) as t_vchar_tab) as testB_vals
from testA a;

-- test size > 4000
insert into testB
select 2 as col1, substr((object_name || object_type), 1, 50) as col2
from all_objects;
commit;

-- select all related testB.col2 values in a nested table for each testA.col1 value
select a.col1, 
cast(multiset(select b.col2 from testB b where b.col1 = a.col1 order by b.col2) as t_vchar_tab) as testB_vals
from testA a;

I'm no java expert, but this has been around for some time and I'm sure java can pull the values out of the nested table. And, no need to tokenize some delimited string on the other end.