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Ramifications of ORA-01555 on Oracle Text index [message #394541]

Fri, 27 March 2009 13:25

nibeck
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Registered: March 2009

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Not a DBA, but trying to gather information relating to recent production issue.

We were implementing Oracle Text for some advanced searching capabilities in our application. While generating the Oracle text index on our table, we got the dreaded ORA-01555. Until that "corrupt" text index was dropped, it appears that update activity against the table we were creating the index on were failing.

I just want to verify that this is indeed what would happen, and that once the index were dropped, the base table would continue to function, but the Oracle Text index would not be there, so text searching would not function.

I'm also assuming that this condition would be true for any type of index creation on a table, not just Oracle Text.

_mike

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Re: Ramifications of ORA-01555 on Oracle Text index [message #394544 is a reply to message #394541]

Fri, 27 March 2009 13:32

BlackSwan
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Registered: January 2009
Location: SoCal

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visit http://asktom.oracle.com & do keyword search on ORA-01555

This error occurs when there is a long running query
and 1 or more other sessions are doing DML against same table.

The DML succeeds; while the SELECT errors out.

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Re: Ramifications of ORA-01555 on Oracle Text index [message #394547 is a reply to message #394541]

Fri, 27 March 2009 13:52

nibeck
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Registered: March 2009

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Thanks for the quick reply. I understand (at least partially) why/how it can happen, I'm more interested in what would happen to other DML running against that table with the now corupt index? Would they hang?, would they rollback?

_mike

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Re: Ramifications of ORA-01555 on Oracle Text index [message #394550 is a reply to message #394541]

Fri, 27 March 2009 14:19

BlackSwan
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>I'm more interested in what would happen to other DML running against that table with the now corupt index?
They succeed.

>Would they hang?,
NO

>would they rollback?
no

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Re: Ramifications of ORA-01555 on Oracle Text index [message #395240 is a reply to message #394541]

Tue, 31 March 2009 19:57

Barbara Boehmer
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Registered: November 2002
Location: California, USA

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http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1894184&#1894184

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