ORA-06519 while doing transactions

Question

Hi,
I have created a trigger on my transaction table. When a service is booked it is being inserted into two seperate tables. It is working fine, but at some times I am getting following error while recording the transactions.
ORA-06519 Active autonomous transactions detected and rolled back.
Following is the trigger code:
create or replace trigger glstrip_audit
after INSERT or update ON jeevadb.ipservice
for each row
declare
pragma autonomous_transaction;
nurstcode pbswardmast.nurstcode%type;
roomno pbsipregist.currroomno%type;
BEGIN
select b.nurstcode,a.currroomno into nurstcode,roomno from pbsipregist a,pbswardmast b where a.currroomno=b.wardno and a.regno=:new.ipno;
if :new.servcode='006013' then
if inserting then
insert into phindenthd(indentno,indentdate,indenttime,regno,storecd,nurstcode,doctcode,userid,edituser,editdate,status)
values (:new.servslno,:new.servdate,:new.servtime,:new.ipno,'94',nurstcode,:new.orderedby,:new.createdby,:new.editedby,:new.editedon,'P');
insert into phindentdt(indentno,itecode,indentqty)
values (:new.servslno,'OPTGS01',:new.servqty);
elsif updating then
update phindenthd set indentno=:old.servslno,indentdate=:old.servdate,indenttime=:old.servtime,regno=:old.ipno,
storecd='94',nurstcode=nurstcode,doctcode=:old.orderedby,userid=:old.createdby,edituser=:new.editedby,editdate=:new.editedon,status='P'
where regno=:old.ipno and indentno=:old.servslno;
update phindentdt set indentno=:old.servslno,itecode='OPTGS01',indentqty=:new.servqty where indentno=:old.servslno;
end if;
end if;
end;
can you help me in finding the problem?
thanks
satya

Answer 1

Hi and welcome to the forum.
"ORA-06519: active autonomous transaction detected and rolled back
Cause: Before returning from an autonomous PL/SQL block, all autonomous transactions started within the block must be completed (either committed or rolled back). If not, the active autonomous transaction is implicitly rolled back and this error is raised.
Action: Ensure that before returning from an autonomous PL/SQL block, any active autonomous transactions are explicitly committed or rolled back"
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10880/e4100.htm#sthref2110
As mentioned by Bartek, Justin and Adrian you've probably forgotten to commit your autonomous transaction and you're abusing the automomous transaction here, don't use 'autonomous triggers', they're nothing but bugs in your code.
My $0.02: you're trying to avoid a mutating table error.
If so, then see: http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/ASKTOM.download_file?p_file=6551198119097816936
(Here you can read more FAQ's: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2009/10/httpasktomoraclecomtkyte.html )
and:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:2212445691154