Remote Function Call: Internal Error

[Kid A]

I am writing stored proecdures on Oracle 9 (release 1 I believe). I am
having difficulty creating a stored procedure that makes a remote
function call to a database on a different host.

On the remote database I declare the following package:

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create or replace package remote_package
as
cursor cursor_a is select * from my_table;
type my_table_tab is table of cursor_a%ROWTYPE;

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I declare the following function

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create or replace function my_function return
remote_package.my_table_tab

as
indx NUMBER;

BEGIN
open remote_package.cursor_a;
indx := 0;
for rec_a in remote_package.cursor_a
loop
my_table_tab(indx) := rec_a;
indx := indx + 1;
end loop;

END;
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On my local database, I have the following procedure written:
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create or replace procedure call_remote

as

a_table remote_package.my_table_tab@REMOTE_HOST

begin
a_table := my_function@REMOTE_HOST;
end;
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When I run the local SQL statement to create the procedure, I get the
following error:

PLS-00801: INTERNAL ERROR[1401]

I made sure that:
@REMOTE_HOST is valid
When I deploy the package and functions locally, everything works
perfectly.

For some reason calling the package and function that is passing back
a table of records is just not working and I am not sure why. Any
help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

-PK