Re: ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:08:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0047D4EE.20020613090841@fatcity.com>

>From MetaLink:

Error: ORA 36
  Text: Maximum number of recursive sql levels (%s) exceeded  

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  Cause: An attempt was made to go more than the specified number of recursive

          SQL levels was made.
  Action: Remove the recursive SQL, possibly a recursive trigger.

• Important: The notes below are for experienced users - See [NOTE:22080.1]

    In Oracle7/8 there is a hard carded limit of 50 recursive     sessions. This hard coded limit is NOT configurable.

    If a you have hit 50 recursive sessions there is probably something     wrong in the code causing an infinite recursion.     Eg: PLSQL which uses DBMS_SQL to call itself over and over.

    The following may help collect additional information about the     true problem.
    NB: See [NOTE:75713.1] before setting any event in the init.ora file.  

    Add this line to the init.ora file for the instance:  

      event="36 trace name errorstack level 3"

    This should dump a trace file when the ORA-36 occurs. The trace file may

    help identify the cause of the problem.

"Farnsworth, Dave" <DFarnsworth_at_Ashleyfurniture.com> Sent by: root_at_fatcity.com
06/13/2002 06:28 AM
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        Subject:        ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded

I got this error in my <SID>Alert log yesterday. I found that this usually has to do with triggers that keep calling itself. Is this "recursive SQL level" an internal parameter that cannot be changed? I do not see this in my init.ora. Is this error due more to coding error?

Thanks,

Dave

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