This is hugely irritating, and I guess it may be a
version-dependent thing, but I can't get the exact
match for the quoted locks by setting up three
tables in the manner described.

The locking information varies between 8.1.7.3
and 9.0.1.3, but I can't get a PK/FK issue to
behave (mis-behave ?) properly.

Various failures include:
    a)    Seeing a lock on the parent table
    b)    Not seeing the TX mode 4 (share) lock at all
    c)    See a TM mode 5 (share row exclusive) request on the child.
           (combined with  a held mode 3 (row exclusive).

Which version of (exact) Oracle is this, and have you figured out
the exact pattern of actions that make the problem appear.

My tables are:
    P1 (id_p1 number primary key ...)
    P2 (id_p2 number primary key ...)
    C(id_p1 references P1, id_p2 references P2, primary key
(id_p1,id_p2) ...)

This seems to describe your scenario - two foreign keys, but
only one of them index by virtue of the composite primary key.



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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 April 2002 19:45


I had already checked that, but since you asked, I double checked.
The primary key on the FIXED_ASSET_ACTIV table has two columns - both
are foreign keys from other tables.  I created a separate index for
the 2nd column in the PK.  This fixed my problem!

So, the foreign key was indexed, it just wasn't indexed correctly.

Thanks,
Jay

>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/18/02 01:17PM >>>
Jay, do you have any unindexed foreign keys on those tables?  If so,
Oracle
>
> Sess          Op Sys              OBJ NAME or
>  ID  USERNAME User ID    TERMINAL TRANS_ID          TY Lock Mode
Req
> Mode
> ---- -------- ---------- -------- ----------------- -- -----------
> -----------
>   12 KEN468   ken468     KEN468-1 FIXED_ASSET_ACTIV TM Row Excl
>   12 KEN468   ken468     KEN468-1 Trans-196694      TX Exclusive
>   14 KEN468   Batch      BATCH    FIXED_ASSET_ACTIV TM Row Excl
>   14 KEN468   Batch      BATCH    Trans-196694      TX --Waiting--
Share
>   14 KEN468   Batch      BATCH    Trans-65597       TX Exclusive
>
>
> So session 14 is waiting for a share lock.  Session 12 has an
exclusive
> lock that is blocking session 14.  How do I find out what session 12
has
> locked that is needed by session 14?
>


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