ORA-1555 on data dictionary query

  • From: <paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:43:18 -0400

A developer came to me with an error message the other day--(Oracle
11gR2 on Solaris)
 
ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 16 with name
"_SYSSMU16_3927122202$" too small

 
The error was recorded in Grid Control, with the ID of the SQL that
caused it.  To my surprise it was a query on ALL_IND_PARTITIONS.  I
would have expected a query on the data dictionary to look for
consistent-read blocks in the SYSTEM tablespace, as create/drop/alter
index DDL would create undo there.  Am I wrong?  Has this changed in
11g?
 
TIA!

Paul Baumgartel 
UBS AG 
IB Accounting Solutions 
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Stamford, CT 06904 

203.719.4368 

paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxx 
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