ORA-00164: Why???

I get an ORA-00164 error message in this case:
A PL-SQL program update DB1 with data selected in DB2 through a DB-LINK.
For each data set, it does a commit or rollback depending on success or error and tries to log this information in a table of DB1 using a procedure with AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION PRAGMA.
When it enters in this function, it gets this message. Since It DOESN'T write in DB2, there should not be a distributed transaction, and there is no distributed query in this code.
I know I could turn around this by commiting/rollbacking around the log code, but this is not clean.
Can someone help?
Thanks.

As far as Oracle is concerned you are moving data across a database link, so it considers this situation a distributed transaction.
Your alternative is to upgrade to 9.2 which (I believe) does support AUTONOMOUS TRANSACTION PRAGMA across db links.
Cheers, APC

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It seems that you cannot start another autonomous transaction when the application is already within an autonomous transactionUmm, up to a point Lord Copper.
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2      PRAGMA autonomous_transaction;
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Thanks for the answer,
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