RE: Deadlock problem

Huh?
 
Sure, missing indexes on FKs can cause deadlocks.  Well, ok, not having
an index on a FK column on the child table does not inherently cause a
deadlock, but the absence of the index certainly increases the
likelihood of an enqueue wait (and possibly a deadlock) duing concurrent
DML.
 
-Mark
 

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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 2:06 PM
To: Bobak, Mark
Cc: Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; alever@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle
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Subject: Re: Deadlock problem


... which also do not cause deadocks.


On 5/8/06, oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx < oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: 

        If it were FKs that are missing indexes, waits would be on a TM
enqueue, 
        not a TX enqueue.
        
        -Mark
        
        
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        ProQuest Information & Learning
        
        For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public
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1918-1988 
        
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mercadante,
Thomas F 
        (LABOR)
        Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:51 PM
        To: alever@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle Freelists.org
        Subject: RE: Deadlock problem
        
        Allesandro,
        
        There were two theories concerning where a commit statement
should be
        issued from.
        
        The first theory I heard from Oracle when PL/SQL first came out
was that
        packages should not have commit statements in them - that the 
        application should issue the commit when all of the pieces of
work were
        completed.  It was thought that the application would better
know when a
        commit should be issued.
        
        The other theory was to put all of the work in the PL/SQL
packages and 
        let it control everything and either report back success
(commit) or
        failure (rollback) to the application.
        
        Today, either way works just fine in my view.
        
        As for your problem, dig a little deeper.  Most deadlocks that
I've seen 
        are caused by foreign key constraints and missing indexes.  So
look at
        the tables involved and look for the table being updated being
        referenced by another table via a FK.  Simply adding indexes to
the
        foreign key columns solves this problem. 
        
        And remember - this is an application problem.  Somebody might
have to
        fix some code!
        
        Good Luck.
        
        Tom
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alessandro
Vercelli
        Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:34 PM
        To: Oracle Freelists.org 
        Subject: Deadlock problem
        
        Hi all,
        I'm trying to solve an ora-4020 (deadlock) issue; the trace file
(sorry
        if messed) shows:
        
        ksqded1:  deadlock detected via did
        DEADLOCK DETECTED
        Current SQL statement for this session: 
        Update <TABLE> set <FIELD1>='<VALUE>' where <FIELD2> like
'<STRING>%'
        The following deadlock is not an ORACLE error. It is a deadlock
due to
        user error in the design of an application or from issuing
incorrect 
        ad-hoc SQL. The following information may aid in determining the
        deadlock:
        Deadlock graph:
                               ---------Blocker(s)--------
        ---------Waiter(s)---------
        Resource Name          process session holds waits  process
session 
        holds waits
        TX-00040015-0000305b        13      11     X             10
14
        X
        TX-0007000b-0000309e        10      14     X             13
11
        X
        session 11: DID 0001-000D-00000001      session 14: DID 
        0001-000A-00000001
        session 14: DID 0001-000A-00000001      session 11: DID
        0001-000D-00000001
        Rows waited on:
        Session 14: obj - rowid = 0000147E - AAABR+AAKAAAAJIAAH Session
11: obj
        - rowid = 0000147E - AAABR+AAKAAAzEeAAH 
        
        The trace file shows clearly that session 11 and 14 are blocking
each
        other.
        
        Note that <STRING> can be very long, but it's almost certain
that this
        is not causing the problem.
        
        Database version is 8.0.5 on Solaris 8 sparc.
        
        So, I'm looking at the piece of source containing the affected
code (I'm
        not the developer neither a skilled one) and I have seen
something
        strange, that is a sql package containing many procedures with 
        insert/update statements and none of these insert/update was
followed by
        a commit; I asked the developer for this matter and she said
that a
        commit would prevent a possible rollback of database
transaction.
        
        Now, my questions are:
        1. Is it correct an insert/update without a commit into a sql
package?
        If yes, when are the inserted/updated data commited?
        2. Would this the possible cause of the deadclock, as the table
indexes 
        could be locked by a large number of records inserted/updated?
        3. Is this the correct way to get the choice of performing a
rollback?
        
        
        Thanks for you help,
        
        Alessandro
        
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