ORA-02074: cannot SET SAVEPOINT in a distributed transaction

Hi .
I've developed a very simple stored procedure that writes in two database tables and depending on internal result, can rollback or commit the transaction.
The procedure works fine as the desired user from sql script Toad but when it is called from a web page the error returned is Insert User ORA-02074: cannot SET SAVEPOINT in a distributed transaction Code-2074.
I've read that to get around this problem i have to declare the stored procedure as pragma autonomous_transaction but it doesn't work well.
The client code uses the Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. The Oracle database is 8.1.7.3.

The S.P. code is like this:

create or replace procedure insert_into_t
as
pragma autonomous_transaction;

myCondition boolean ;
begin

SAVEPOINT A;

insert into t values ( 1 );

if myCondition then
commit;
else
rollback to A;
end if;
end;



Thanks - Davide.

Maybe you need to re-write your very simple stored procedure. :rolleyes:

Autonomous transaction is a bad idea. It won't see any uncommitted changes from your main transaction, and the commit would only apply to the insert in your autonomous transaction.

If you can't use savepoints, you'll need to actually do the test before the insert, so you can NOT INSERT, rather than INSERT/ROLLBACK.

create or replace procedure insert_into_t
as
myCondition boolean ;
begin
if myCondition then
insert into t values ( 1 );
commit;
end if;
end;