Re: Parallel index creates causing blocking lock alerting

  • From: "Rich Jesse" <rjoralist2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:02:48 -0500 (CDT)

1+ week ago, I wrote:

> After upgrading to 11.2.0.3 (64-bit AIX 5.3), during index creates with DOP
> 2 on our dev DB, EM12c goes nuts in alerting me to blocking locks.  It looks
> like the issue is in the DB:
>
> There are several messages in DBA_ALERT_HISTORY with a REASON of "Session
> nnn is blocking 0 other sessions".  If it's blocking zero sessions, then why
> the message?  The only thing of consequence happening at the time of these
> messages on a Friday night in this dev DB is a slew of CREATE
> INDEX...PARALLEL 2 statements running sequentially (one at a time).  ASH and
> AWR reports seem to confirm this.

No one else seeing this?  Oracle tells me that this is normal.  Yes, I saw
the behavior in 10.1 as well, but that version didn't feel the need to wake
me up about it...

[sigh]  I think I preferred my old unsupported bugs rather than the
supported ones I have now.

Rich

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