> By the way, I would be quite interested to know why oracle needs to
> acquire row cache lock on dc_tablespace_quotas in this case and if there
> is any way to skip this operation with 'a clever hack'.

If you search on MetaLink with keyword "dc_tablespace_quotas" (with bug
database search enabled), there are a few bugs related to data dictionary
cache deadlocks.


Regards
Dimitre

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