There is a bug in 8.1 which leaves segments
for 'proper' temporary tables locked. If you
look in v$lock you will find a lock of type TT
belonging to the app session which is now
dead. I haven't been able to find a way to clear
this lock yet, other than stopping and restarting
the instance.
--
Jonathan Lewis
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futurshk_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <8vh7vi$562$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>I thought I had posted this, but seem to be able to find it, so I'm
>trying again, sorry if it comes up twice.
>
>Our application creates a temporary table, in Oracle 8, at startup and
>drops it at shutdown. A user shutdown the app improperly, causing the
>temporary table to not get dropped. I've tried to drop it using both
>the original user's logon and logged on as the DBA, but get the a
>response of
>'ORA-14452: attempt to create, alter or drop an index on temporary
>table already in use'.
>I checked through the Kill/Trace session in TOAD and the user is no
>longer has a session open.
>Any advice here would be great.
>
>
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Received on Wed Nov 22 2000 - 15:16:00 CST
