Re: ORA-01041 - Hostdef doesn't exist - Help!

I had this problem when the database went down, after a client application had successfully connected.
The insert statement in such a case does not find a valid connection. Reports this weird message.

Hope that helps.

John Dorlon <jdorlon_at_diamondcontrol.com> wrote in message news:EM945.213$6R5.131871_at_paloalto-snr1.gtei.net...
> Does anyone know exactly what this means? All I am doing is running a
 bunch
> of inserts and updates, the inserts work fine, but the most of the updates
> are giving me this error.
>
> I looked up the error in the Oracle documentation, but it isn't very
> useful. This is what it says :
>
> ORA-01041 internal error. hostdef extension doesn't exist
> Cause: Pointer to HSTDEF extension in HSTDEF is null.
> Action: Contact Oracle Customer Support.
>
> My company has to cough up $$ if we want to call Oracle, so I'm hoping I
> won't have to.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -John
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 05 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT