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Re: strange issue with setting transaction

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriole.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:14:12 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00526DB2.20030103121412@fatcity.com>


Sergei wrote:
>
> I am running 8.1.6 on solaris 2.8.
>
> Before running a large update, I tried to set a specific rollback
> segment by:
> Set transaction use rollback segment RBIG20;
>
> The transaction runs for a while and fails with:
>
> ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 29 with name "R27"
> too
> Small
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thank you
>
> Sergei
>

The problem is not with your transaction, but with another one which is simultaneously modifying data you are reading.

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Stephane Faroult
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