Re: Forms: Too Many Cursors

OPEN_CURSORS 50 is just way too low.
Change it to at least 200 or better still 500.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"challinj" <challinj_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:916c9o$am0$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I am basing Oracle Forms data blocks on procedures that return REF
> CURSORs to the client. It appears that the cursors are opened on the
> server and never closed after they are used to retrieve the data for
> the Oracle Form. It is just a matter of time before "ORA-01000 Too
> Many Open Cursors" rears its ugly head and no further querying for the
> user is possible. The OPEN_CURSORS parameter in INIT.ORA is 50.
>
> I initially had my forms based on PL/SQL tables and thought that it
> would be a nice exercise to try REF CURSORs instead. Too bad that
> Oracle documentation failed to mention that any cursors opened on the
> server in my packages will remain open indefinitely. It would be nice
> if Oracle Forms could automatically close the REF CURSORs on the server
> for me once the data has been retrieved. Is there any other option
> other than raising the OPEN_CURSORS param to a high number? I've
> noticed that others have had similar problems with Java resultsets, etc.
>
> Any help or input on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
>
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Received on Tue Dec 12 2000 - 23:33:40 CST