Why can't I can't I use my Oracle user defined type like this?

Question

In an Oracle package I have defined a type

type setTable is table of my_sets.pkey%type;

in the package declaration (the non-body part). The pkey column referenced is a number(38) . Then in a function in the package body I have

...
with d as (select column_value from table(sets)),
...

where sets is a parameter to the function of type settable . This line fails to compile with the error 'ORA-22905: cannot access rows from a non-nested table item'. What can I do to resolve this?

Answer 1

The select statement is SQL not PL/SQL, and the SQL engine can only work with types defined on the server like this:

create type setObj is object (<attributes>);
create type setTable is table of setObj;