Run your test case, and check the contents of v$open_cursor. Unless my memory has got it backwards, the pl/sql cursor cache is counted towards max_open_cursors, but the cursors that have been held open by the 'dirty tricks department' are closed as required if the limit is reached: (so should not be responsible for ORA-01000 anyway).
cursors held open as session_cache'd cursors are counted independently of max_open_cursors - so should not cause an ORA-01000 Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:09 PM > It might be held in the cursor cache, it may even be > held in session cursors cache but it will not be counted > as an open cursor. My suggestion had diagnostic purpose only. > The problem is, probably, with the tool which explicitly closes > cursors too frequently and insufficiently sized shared pool > which throws cursors out soon after they're closed. > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).