Oracle-L: What is the result of this

From: Stephen Lee <Stephen.Lee_at_DTAG.Com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:09:18 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00581BAE.20030415120918@fatcity.com>

Here's a question that came up around here that nobody was sure about. Suppose you need to drop and index on a busy table, and you keep getting the "Resource busy .... " error. So you create a procedure as follows:

create or replace procedure go as
begin

execute immediate 'drop index BUBBA.INDEX_NAME'; exception

when others then

go;
end;
/

Is this the a equivalent of a single loop that just loops around until successful; or does this result in recursion that just gets deeper and deeper, using up a constantly increasing amount of resources?

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