RE: PowerBuilder & Oracle Locking--HELP!!!!

From: <as360114_at_orion.yorku.ca>
Date: 1995/04/06
Message-ID: <1995Apr6.172915.1_at_orion.yorku.ca>#1/1


In article <3m0q01$c3i_at_world.net>, mgh_at_ausnet.world.net (Michael Harvey) writes:
> In article <3luhjl$nbk_at_linus.mitre.org>, vv_at_mbunix.mitre.org says...
>>
>>We are using Oracle 7.0.16 and Powerbuilder and getting shared table  locks

>>which keep other users from updating and occasionally lead to deadlocks.
>>Has anyone had a similar experience?  The developers claim that they
>>are not doing this--and a Powerbuilder "expert" says it's not 
 Powerbuilder.
>>
>>Any clues in netland???
>>

>
> This can happen in ORACLE if you are using foreign keys without
> indexes over them. If table A has a primary key and then table B
> references the primary key with no index, then deleting a row in table
> A will result in a share table lock on table B.
>
> The solution is to always create an index over any foreign key.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Harvey (mgh_at_world.net)
>

Is that a bug with Oracle, or an un-documented feature?

Ramy Taraboulsi. Received on Thu Apr 06 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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