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Replication Management API Reference

All installations of Oracle replication include the replication management application programming interface (API). This replication management API is a collection of PL/SQL packages that administrators use to configure and manage replication features at each site. Oracle Replication Manager also uses the procedures and functions of each site's replication management API to perform work.

This chapter describes the packages that constitute the Oracle replication management API, including:

• The procedures and functions in each package

• The parameters for each packaged procedure or function

• Exceptions that each procedure or function can raise

  Note: Some of the PL/SQL procedures and functions described in this chapter are overloaded. That is, two or more procedures or functions have the same name in a single package, but their formal parameters differ in number, order, or datatype family. When a procedure or function is overloaded, it is noted in the description. See the PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference for more information about overloading and for more information about PL/SQL in general.