resending because mail on freelists showed only some gibberish But if your values for the primary key constraint on the child table are generated by a sequence, how would you end up with sessions trying to insert duplicate values? -- Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(03) 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer.html On do, 2013-03-21 at 16:19 +0100, Patterson, Joel wrote: > This was enough to dig into the application further. We know that last > night's process had to be one of a few - since it is acceptance and no 'user' > was logged in and working. > We hypothesize that there are two application layer 'nodes' executing inserts > into the child table - at the same time. The Cache on the sequence used for > the primary key is set to 500 - clue. > > However, as to the suspect reporting of the deadlock graph - it appears that > Jonathan was spot on, (I have a little English in me). > > The column used by the child table sequence is the primary key for the child > table, and is not related to the FK index mentioned in the Deadlock graph, > object 199909, which references the parent table on a totally different > column. > > So we theorize that the primary key overlap is actually on the child table - > and had nothing to do with the FK index to the parent table as reported in > the deadlock graph; 'mystery'. > > Still looking into getting the values for the bind variable in the trace > file. I haven't done an insert in so long I have opened an SR - this may > confirm the theory. > > Joel Patterson > Database Administrator > 904 928-2790 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l