I remember lock type TO exists way back in 8i. AE is new in 11g. Views like xxx_editioning_views and the rewritten error message ORA-25001 are probably related to this. Yong Huang Tanel Porder wrote: > V$LOCK_TYPE is a good starting point! > > SQL> select type,name,description from v$lock_type where type in ('AE', > 'TO'); > > TYPE NAME DESCRIPTION > ---- -------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > AE Edition Lock Prevent Dropping an edition in use > TO Temp Object Synchronizes DDL and DML operations on a temp > object > > AE is about application code versioning (editions) which should be released > as part of Oracle 11.2 I think. > TO is about temp tables so someone wouldn't be able to drop or alter the > structure of the table def while there's some other session having data in > the temp tab. > > -- > Tanel Poder > http://blog.tanelpoder.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l