oracle创建视图包含clob字段，报错：数据类型不一致:应为-,但却获得CLOB

在oracle中创建视图的时候，语句中包含有clob类型的字段。视图创建语句大概如下：

CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "T_PROJECTS" ("ID", "NAME","DSC_INFO") AS
(
select a.id,a.name,'' DSC_INFO from t_project_a a
union
select b.id,b.name,b.dsc_info from t_project_b b
union
select c.id,c.name,c.dsc_info from t_project_c c
);

但在执行的时候却报错了，错误为：

数据类型不一致:应为-,但却获得CLOB

检查以后发现，dsc_info字段为clob类型，起初以为是clob类型初始化的问题，于是把语句改为

CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "T_PROJECTS" ("ID", "NAME","DSC_INFO") AS
(
select a.id,a.name,empty_clob() DSC_INFO from t_project_a a
union
select b.id,b.name,b.dsc_info from t_project_b b
union
select c.id,c.name,c.dsc_info from t_project_c c
);

执行仍然报错。然后查资料：oracle中clob实际上是使用char来存储数据的，所以在对clob字段进行查询时为了保证正确应该对字段进行转换，转换成char，并给字段增加别名。转换成char的函数为：to_char（clob字段名）。最后，sql改为：

CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "T_PROJECTS" ("ID", "NAME","DSC_INFO") AS
(
select a.id,a.name,'' DSC_INFO from t_project_a a
union
select b.id,b.name,to_char(b.dsc_info) DSC_INFO from t_project_b b
union
select c.id,c.name,to_char(c.dsc_info) DSC_INFO from t_project_c c
);

执行成功，以作记录。