Re: deadlock problem

Does it have foreign keys?

"Farnsworth, Dave" wrote:
>
> I am trying to do a TRUNCATE TABLE My_Table but keep getting this error;
>
> A self-deadlock among DDL and parse locks
> is detected. In most cases, this self-deadlock
> is handled internally.
> This should be reported to Oracle Support
> ONLY IF an error is signalled back to the
> user on a command-line or screen.
> The following information may aid in finding
> the problem.
> ORA-04020: deadlock detected while trying to lock object DFARNSWORTH.REGION_ZIPS
>
> This is in my test environment and there should not be anything else locking the table. Any ideas??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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