Re: MAXTRANS ignored

BINGO! I tried 3 tx and #3 waited on a tx to end. I just RTFMed and the doc (both r1 and r2) says it can be 1 to 255. If you can recall where you read this, please let me know.

Daniel

Tanel Poder wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I remember from somewhere that in 9i, mintrans is 2 for tables as well, like
> for indexes in past. Thus maxtrans is minimum 2 as well, even if you set it
> to 1 explicitly. You can verify it from blockdump, there's 2 ITL entries in
> block even when you have had only one transaction there. So you should try
> to do at least 3 *updates or deletes* in different transactions in a block.
> If you do inserts then a new block is just allocated when ITL list is
> full...
>
> Tanel.
>
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>
> > In testing, I found that MAXTRANS seems to be ignored in 9.2.0.3.
> >
> > I created a table with a MAXTRANS setting of 1. I inserted some rows and
> committed. In one session, I updated a row, but did not
> > commit. In another session, I updated a different row (in the same block).
> I expected to see a wait, but the transaction completed
> > immediately. I dumped the block header and, sure enough, there were 2
> entries in the ITL. There should be only 1 entry (as defined
> > by MAXTRANS).
> >
> > Am I missing something? or have I hit an 'undocumented feature'?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
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