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Re: Snapshot too old, but I don't care about read consistency for this query

From: Glenn Baron <gbaron_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: 13 Jul 1999 21:15:06 GMT
Message-ID: <01becd75$2e5a7360$2992bc3e@default>


Nope. Under these circumstances you must run this query out-of-hours when no DML is in conflict with your rbs...

Greg Stark <gsstark_at_mit.edu> wrote in article <87hfn86zcf.fsf_at_mit.edu>...
>
> I have a long-running "select *" query--it takes hours to process all the
> records--and sometimes I get "snapshot too old" for some of the rows. Is
there
> any way to convince Oracle that I really don't care about consistent
reads
> here, just fetch the most recent data from that record? This is
especially
> important because I'm considering enabling discrete transactions for the
> updates anyways, so these errors will become much more frequent.
>
> greg
>
Received on Tue Jul 13 1999 - 16:15:06 CDT

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