Looking at dependencies for a table gets Error ORA-01436: CONNECT BY loop

Question

I have just tried looking at the dependencies for a table and I received an "ORA-01436: CONNECT BY loop in user data.
Please let me know if there are any fixes or work arounds for this problem.
Thanks
Sunil

Answer 1

Looks like there is another posting on this.
ORA-01436 in Dependencies
Because the query uses CONNECT BY and there is a circular reference it errors out. If it didn't, there would be an infinite number of results.
This is the query that Oracle is using: SELECT owner, object_type, object_name, object_id, status , decode(replace(object_type,' ','_'),'PACKAGE_BODY','PACKAGE',replace(object_type,' ','_')) type_link
  FROM sys.all_objects
  WHERE object_id IN (
          SELECT object_id
             FROM public_dependency
           CONNECT BY PRIOR object_id = referenced_object_id
           START WITH referenced_object_id = :OBJECT_ID ) pulled from sql_dev_root/jdev/extensions/oracle.dbdev.oviewer.jar, editors.xml
I am not a connect by pro, so I can't tell you how to alter this to make it stop digging when it encounters an infinite loop, but maybe someone else can. In other tools, it normally dynamically pulls this data into a tree so it is only querying one level at a time.
This happens if for example MY_TABLE depends upon MY_PACKAGE and vice versa:
--MY_TABLE
  --MY_PACKAGE
    --MY_TABLE
      --MY_PACKAGE
        .... Hopefully someone on the sql dev team has a solution to this and can get it fixed in a later release.