Why doesn't PL/SQL respect privileges granted by Roles?

Question

When executing a PL/SQL block, any privileges granted to roles are ignored. Instead you must give specific users specific grants to run it. If I want to give DBAs access to

Answer 1

I'm think it is some historical heritage. When changing ROLE's object privs Oracle would have re-compile a lot of PL/SQL stored code. PS: you can also create something called "SCHEMA".

See CREATE SCHEMA statement.