In a recent post, I reported that when you have too many characters at the beginning of a package body (ours are the change history for an old package) PL/SQL Dev will not offer Describe or Test when you right-click on a module. If the package fails to compile, you see only the message "Compiled with errors" but no error list.

The magic number of characters is somewhere around 10,000. I can remove a single character and the problem goes away; add a character back anywhere in the initial remarks and the problem returns.

I my earlier post, I thought the problem could be solved by converting from "rem" to denote comments to "--", but further testing shows that is not true. In my first test the change must have lowered the number of characters in comments below the threshold.

Can this bug be fixed? Will it be?