Stephen Lee wrote:
>
> 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?
>
My feeling is that in most cases you'll overflow the Oracle exception
stack very quickly.
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