Question

This hangs in Php (5.2.6-Win32 + Oracle10g) is it a bug, or I’m doing something fundamentally wrong?

try {     $conn = new PDO($DB,$USER,$PASSWORD);     $conn->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION );     //connected     try {         $conn->exec('DELETE FROM MY_TABLE');         echo 'done'; ... 

Note: I don’t know if this is a bug or not, I’m guessing it is. However as I couldn’t find a bug report for this after a quick search. I might be doing something wrong, so I figured I’d ask here first, and for posterity in case someone else has a similar issue.

Answer 1

Are there other activities going on in the database at the same time? If yes, I’d suspect deadlocks. Some uncommitted DML transaction(s) might be locking some rows of the MY_TABLE.

If you don’t need rollback capability, consider using TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.