The documentation says:
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DISABLE Procedure
This procedure disables calls to PUT, PUT_LINE, NEW_LINE, GET_LINE, and GET_LINES, and purges the buffer of any remaining information.
As with the ENABLE Procedure, you do not need to call this procedure if you are using the SERVEROUTPUT option of SQL*Plus.
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I have a PL/SQL script A, which uses dbms_output to generate another script B (spooling dbms_output to a file).
However script A invokes a PL/SQL package C, that uses dbms_output to log error/warning/debug messages.
This clashes with script B generation of script A.
So i tried to wrap the invocation of PL/SQL package C with dbms_output.disable / dbms_output.enable.
However, as documented above DISABLE "...purges the buffer of any remaining information."
But here is no flush for dbms_output .
I cannot easily rewrite legacy code to replace script B generation via dbms_output.
Is there a way around?
best regards,
Frank