PL/SQL cursor with FOR UPDATE STATEMENT

Question

Welcome,
I have some troubles with cursors. When I try update values in table using cursor i receive ORA-01410 Error : "INVALID ROWID".
I use code as below:
ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA=TEST_SCHEMA;
DECLARE
TYPE LogTable_typ IS TABLE OF ADMIN_FILE_LOG%ROWTYPE;
v_ModuleId KTIMS.ADMIN_FILE_LOG.MODULE_ID%TYPE;
v_CDR KTIMS.ADMIN_FILE_LOG.CDR_SUCCESS%TYPE;
CURSOR c1 IS
SELECT MODULE_ID, cdr_success FROM ADMIN_FILE_LOG
FOR UPDATE OF CDR_SUCCESS NOWAIT;
BEGIN
OPEN c1;
LOOP
FETCH c1 INTO v_ModuleId,v_CDR;
IF v_ModuleId = 'LOAD' THEN
UPDATE ADMIN_FILE_LOG SET CDR_SUCCESS = 70 WHERE CURRENT OF c1;
END IF;
EXIT WHEN c1%NOTFOUND;
END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(SQLERRM || SQLCODE);
END;
When I use ROWID in cursor declaration all works fine.Working code is:
ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA=KTIMS;
DECLARE
TYPE LogTable_typ IS TABLE OF ADMIN_FILE_LOG%ROWTYPE;
v_ModuleId KTIMS.ADMIN_FILE_LOG.MODULE_ID%TYPE;
v_CDR KTIMS.ADMIN_FILE_LOG.CDR_SUCCESS%TYPE;
v_id ROWID;
CURSOR c1 IS
SELECT MODULE_ID, cdr_success, ROWID FROM ADMIN_FILE_LOG
FOR UPDATE OF CDR_SUCCESS NOWAIT;
BEGIN
OPEN c1;
LOOP
FETCH c1 INTO v_ModuleId,v_CDR,v_id;
IF v_ModuleId = 'LOAD' THEN
UPDATE ADMIN_FILE_LOG SET CDR_SUCCESS = 70 WHERE ROWID = v_id;
END IF;
EXIT WHEN c1%NOTFOUND;
END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(SQLERRM || SQLCODE);
END;
What is difference in this two cases ?
I try to find this in Oracle documentation "Database PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference" ( http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14261/sqloperations.htm#i45288 ).
Please help.

Answer 1

Hi,
I think the USE of NOWAIT clause in cursor for update is, to remove the lock immediately after the transaction is over.
In the second example where you are fetching the rowid explicitly and use the same id in loop to make the update, so there should not be any problem in this case.
In the first example when you are using CURRENT OF to do the update, it is basically work on basis of latest fetched row from cursor and do the update (but i think implicitly it use the reference of row id also).
I am not sure about it , but still try once by removing the NOWAIT clause from your cursor for update and try once , see whether you are still facing the error or not.