RE: ORA-00054 (alter table add partition)

If you google "ORA-00054" you will certainly see lots of possibilities.

I found that DDL intensive apps (especially with partition maintenance) seem to 
be prone to seemingly random ORA-00054 errors.
I eventually put all DDL commands through a retry loop that catches the 54 
error and waits a second and reruns it.
Generally it always seems to work on the second try.
I suspect that it is due to some kind of internal data dictionary locking.

This is using 10.2 on Linux x64.

--Peter

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