What's the difference between pls_integer and binary_integer?
问题 I've inherited some code which is going to be the base for some additional work. Looking at the stored procs, I see quite a lot of associative-arrays. Some of these are indexed by binary_integers, some by pls_integers. Are there any differences between the two? I had a look at the documentation, but apart from this line: The PL/SQL data types PLS_INTEGER and BINARY_INTEGER are identical. For simplicity, this document uses PLS_INTEGER to mean both PLS_INTEGER and BINARY_INTEGER . I couldn't