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Posted to derby-dev@db.apache.org by "Bergquist, Brett" <BB...@canoga.com> on 2017/09/19 22:04:38 UTC

Any idea why a sequence is getting "Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unsused preallocated values for the sequence" error

I have a simple application that is running with no other access to the database.   A sequence is defined

CREATE SEQUENCE LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE AS BIGINT START WITH 1 MINVALUE 1 CYCLE

The application is retrieving the next sequence number with a "VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)" statement and then that sequence number is being used as an ID for the rows to be inserted int  another database table.

500,000 rows are going to be inserted.   When this is run, periodically there is an error being logged by derby.

Here is the derby.log

Tue Sep 19 15:55:06 EDT 2017:
Booting Derby version The Apache Software Foundation - Apache Derby - 10.13.1.1
- (1765088): instance a816c00e-015e-9bb4-c83b-ffffb4d52705
on database directory /opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases/csemloggerdb with class loader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@5c647e05
Loaded from file:/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/javadb/lib/derby.jar
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_40-b26
user.dir=/
os.name=SunOS
os.arch=amd64
os.version=5.10
derby.system.home=/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases
Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath=''
Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath='CSEM.csemderby'
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.

Here is the code used.   Note that it is using JPA, however the LogEnty entity being inserted is not using the sequence.   All LogEntry ID assignment is done manually using the result of the sequence number retrieved (the slot assignment).

private static void initializeLoggerEntryTable(SetupContext ctx, long entryCount) {
        EntityManager em = ctx.getEntityManager();

        Query nextSeqQuery = em.createNativeQuery("VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)");

        int j = 0;
        // Create a transaction
        ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().begin();
        for (int i = 0; i < entryCount; i++) {

            long nextSeq = ((Long) nextSeqQuery.getSingleResult()).longValue();
            long slot = nextSeq % entryCount;

            // See if there is a LogEntry at this slot
            LogEntry logEntry = em.find(LogEntry.class, slot);
            if (null == logEntry) {
                // There is not, so create one
                logEntry = new LogEntry();
                logEntry.setSlot(slot);
                // Persist the chassis template
                em.persist(logEntry);
            }

            // Commit the transaction
            if (++j >= 10) {
                em.getTransaction().commit();
                em.clear();
                em.getTransaction().begin();
                j = 0;
            }
        }
        ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().commit();
    }

The sequence is not used outside of this code and there is no other access to the database.   I don't understand why some internal lock could not be obtained.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.



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Re: Any idea why a sequence is getting "Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unsused preallocated values for the sequence" error

Posted by Rick Hillegas <ri...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for that extra information, Brett. How many sessions run that 
code? It will be interesting to figure out why the application doesn't 
catch any errors when it tries to get a sequence number. I wonder if JPA 
or something else in your stack is issuing DDL behind the scenes.

Thanks,
-Rick


On 9/20/17 7:23 AM, Bergquist, Brett wrote:
>
> Doing none of that.  The posted code is the only running application 
> and method accessing that database.
>
> I don’t think that the database is being shutdown, even abnormally by 
> something internal as there is nothing in the derby.log to indicate 
> such and no indication of the database then being booted.  Note that 
> these messages are coming out while the application is running, not at 
> the end.   The application continues to run even after these message 
> come out.
>
> Another strange observation is that the application does not report 
> any errors itself yet it does not create the required number of 
> entries either.  The application is trying to initialize 500,000 rows 
> in the database, yet after it finishes and these errors reported, it 
> has somewhere around 499,7xx entries.   The only way that I can see 
> that happen with the application not reporting any error yet not 
> creating the number of required entries is for the sequence to return 
> the same sequence numbers when the error is happening.   If this were 
> happening, then the application would already see a row and not try to 
> create one again (the logic below in the application checks to see if 
> there is an entry already present).
>
> Note that the application is batching up inserts and committing these 
> 10 at a time.   It is using the JPA transaction manager to perform the 
> transactions but that should not matter because in this standalone 
> case, that should in turn be using the native database transactions.
>
> I will turn on statement logging to make sure and see if I can get 
> this into a smaller reproducible case.
>
> *From:*Rick Hillegas [mailto:rick.hillegas@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7:55 PM
> *To:* derby-dev@db.apache.org; Bergquist, Brett
> *Subject:* Re: Any idea why a sequence is getting "Derby could not 
> obtain the locks needed to release the unsused preallocated values for 
> the sequence" error
>
> Hi Brett,
>
> SequenceUpdater.clean() is the only method which raises that error. 
> The header comment on that method says that the condition can arise if 
> someone else is doing DDL while you are allocating sequence numbers, 
> or if someone else is scanning SYS.SYSSEQUENCES, or if the database 
> shuts down while sequence numbers are still being grabbed. Is your 
> application doing any of this at steady-state?
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
>
> On 9/19/17 3:04 PM, Bergquist, Brett wrote:
>
>     I have a simple application that is running with no other access
>     to the database.   A sequence is defined
>
>     CREATE SEQUENCE LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE AS BIGINT START WITH 1 MINVALUE
>     1 CYCLE
>
>     The application is retrieving the next sequence number with a
>     “VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)” statement and then
>     that sequence number is being used as an ID for the rows to be
>     inserted int another database table.
>
>     500,000 rows are going to be inserted. When this is run,
>     periodically there is an error being logged by derby.
>
>     Here is the derby.log
>
>     Tue Sep 19 15:55:06 EDT 2017:
>
>     Booting Derby version The Apache Software Foundation - Apache
>     Derby - 10.13.1.1
>
>     - (1765088): instance a816c00e-015e-9bb4-c83b-ffffb4d52705
>
>     on database directory
>     /opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases/csemloggerdb with class
>     loader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@5c647e05
>     <ma...@5c647e05>
>
>     Loaded from file:/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/javadb/lib/derby.jar
>     <file:///%5C%5Copt%5Ccsemlogger%5Cglassfish4%5Cjavadb%5Clib%5Cderby.jar>
>
>     java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
>
>     java.runtime.version=1.8.0_40-b26
>
>     user.dir=/
>
>     os.name=SunOS
>
>     os.arch=amd64
>
>     os.version=5.10
>
>     derby.system.home=/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases
>
>     Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath=''
>
>     Database Class Loader started -
>     derby.database.classpath='CSEM.csemderby'
>
>     Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused,
>     preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
>     a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
>     Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused,
>     preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
>     a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
>     Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused,
>     preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
>     a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
>     Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused,
>     preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
>     a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
>     Here is the code used.   Note that it is using JPA, however the
>     LogEnty entity being inserted is not using the sequence.   All
>     LogEntry ID assignment is done manually using the result of the
>     sequence number retrieved (the slot assignment).
>
>     private static void initializeLoggerEntryTable(SetupContext ctx,
>     long entryCount) {
>
>     EntityManager em = ctx.getEntityManager();
>
>             Query nextSeqQuery = em.createNativeQuery("VALUES (NEXT
>     VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)");
>
>             int j = 0;
>
>             // Create a transaction
>
>     ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().begin();
>
>             for (int i = 0; i < entryCount; i++) {
>
>                 long nextSeq = ((Long)
>     nextSeqQuery.getSingleResult()).longValue();
>
>                 long slot = nextSeq % entryCount;
>
>                 // See if there is a LogEntry at this slot
>
>                 LogEntry logEntry = em.find(LogEntry.class, slot);
>
>                 if (null == logEntry) {
>
>                     // There is not, so create one
>
>     logEntry = new LogEntry();
>
>     logEntry.setSlot(slot);
>
>                     // Persist the chassis template
>
>     em.persist(logEntry);
>
>                 }
>
>                 // Commit the transaction
>
>                 if (++j >= 10) {
>
>     em.getTransaction().commit();
>
>     em.clear();
>
>     em.getTransaction().begin();
>
>                     j = 0;
>
>                 }
>
>             }
>
>     ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().commit();
>
>         }
>
>     The sequence is not used outside of this code and there is no
>     other access to the database.   I don’t understand why some
>     internal lock could not be obtained.
>
>     Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
>
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>
>     Canoga Perkins
>     20600 Prairie Street
>     Chatsworth, CA 91311
>     (818) 718-6300
>
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> (818) 718-6300
>
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RE: Any idea why a sequence is getting "Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unsused preallocated values for the sequence" error

Posted by "Bergquist, Brett" <BB...@canoga.com>.
Doing none of that.  The posted code is the only running application and method accessing that database.

I don't think that the database is being shutdown, even abnormally by something internal as there is nothing in the derby.log to indicate such and no indication of the database then being booted.  Note that these messages are coming out while the application is running, not at the end.   The application continues to run even after these message come out.

Another strange observation is that the application does not report any errors itself yet it does not create the required number of entries either.  The application is trying to initialize 500,000 rows in the database, yet after it finishes and these errors reported, it has somewhere around 499,7xx entries.   The only way that I can see that happen with the application not reporting any error yet not creating the number of required entries is for the sequence to return the same sequence numbers when the error is happening.   If this were happening, then the application would already see a row and not try to create one again (the logic below in the application checks to see if there is an entry already present).

Note that the application is batching up inserts and committing these 10 at a time.   It is using the JPA transaction manager to perform the transactions but that should not matter because in this standalone case, that should in turn be using the native database transactions.

I will turn on statement logging to make sure and see if I can get this into a smaller reproducible case.

From: Rick Hillegas [mailto:rick.hillegas@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7:55 PM
To: derby-dev@db.apache.org; Bergquist, Brett
Subject: Re: Any idea why a sequence is getting "Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unsused preallocated values for the sequence" error

Hi Brett,

SequenceUpdater.clean() is the only method which raises that error. The header comment on that method says that the condition can arise if someone else is doing DDL while you are allocating sequence numbers, or if someone else is scanning SYS.SYSSEQUENCES, or if the database shuts down while sequence numbers are still being grabbed. Is your application doing any of this at steady-state?

Thanks,
-Rick

On 9/19/17 3:04 PM, Bergquist, Brett wrote:
I have a simple application that is running with no other access to the database.   A sequence is defined

CREATE SEQUENCE LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE AS BIGINT START WITH 1 MINVALUE 1 CYCLE

The application is retrieving the next sequence number with a "VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)" statement and then that sequence number is being used as an ID for the rows to be inserted int  another database table.

500,000 rows are going to be inserted.   When this is run, periodically there is an error being logged by derby.

Here is the derby.log

Tue Sep 19 15:55:06 EDT 2017:
Booting Derby version The Apache Software Foundation - Apache Derby - 10.13.1.1
- (1765088): instance a816c00e-015e-9bb4-c83b-ffffb4d52705
on database directory /opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases/csemloggerdb with class loader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@5c647e05<ma...@5c647e05>
Loaded from file:/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/javadb/lib/derby.jar<file:///\\opt\csemlogger\glassfish4\javadb\lib\derby.jar>
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
java.runtime.version=1.8.0_40-b26
user.dir=/
os.name=SunOS
os.arch=amd64
os.version=5.10
derby.system.home=/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases
Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath=''
Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath='CSEM.csemderby'
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.

Here is the code used.   Note that it is using JPA, however the LogEnty entity being inserted is not using the sequence.   All LogEntry ID assignment is done manually using the result of the sequence number retrieved (the slot assignment).

private static void initializeLoggerEntryTable(SetupContext ctx, long entryCount) {
        EntityManager em = ctx.getEntityManager();

        Query nextSeqQuery = em.createNativeQuery("VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)");

        int j = 0;
        // Create a transaction
        ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().begin();
        for (int i = 0; i < entryCount; i++) {

            long nextSeq = ((Long) nextSeqQuery.getSingleResult()).longValue();
            long slot = nextSeq % entryCount;

            // See if there is a LogEntry at this slot
            LogEntry logEntry = em.find(LogEntry.class, slot);
            if (null == logEntry) {
                // There is not, so create one
                logEntry = new LogEntry();
                logEntry.setSlot(slot);
                // Persist the chassis template
                em.persist(logEntry);
            }

            // Commit the transaction
            if (++j >= 10) {
                em.getTransaction().commit();
                em.clear();
                em.getTransaction().begin();
                j = 0;
            }
        }
        ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().commit();
    }

The sequence is not used outside of this code and there is no other access to the database.   I don't understand why some internal lock could not be obtained.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.



________________________________
Canoga Perkins
20600 Prairie Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311
(818) 718-6300

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________________________________
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20600 Prairie Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311
(818) 718-6300

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Re: Any idea why a sequence is getting "Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unsused preallocated values for the sequence" error

Posted by Rick Hillegas <ri...@gmail.com>.
Hi Brett,

SequenceUpdater.clean() is the only method which raises that error. The 
header comment on that method says that the condition can arise if 
someone else is doing DDL while you are allocating sequence numbers, or 
if someone else is scanning SYS.SYSSEQUENCES, or if the database shuts 
down while sequence numbers are still being grabbed. Is your application 
doing any of this at steady-state?

Thanks,
-Rick

On 9/19/17 3:04 PM, Bergquist, Brett wrote:
>
> I have a simple application that is running with no other access to 
> the database.   A sequence is defined
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE AS BIGINT START WITH 1 MINVALUE 1 CYCLE
>
> The application is retrieving the next sequence number with a “VALUES 
> (NEXT VALUE FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)” statement and then that sequence 
> number is being used as an ID for the rows to be inserted int another 
> database table.
>
> 500,000 rows are going to be inserted. When this is run, periodically 
> there is an error being logged by derby.
>
> Here is the derby.log
>
> Tue Sep 19 15:55:06 EDT 2017:
>
> Booting Derby version The Apache Software Foundation - Apache Derby - 
> 10.13.1.1
>
> - (1765088): instance a816c00e-015e-9bb4-c83b-ffffb4d52705
>
> on database directory 
> /opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases/csemloggerdb with class loader 
> sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@5c647e05
>
> Loaded from file:/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/javadb/lib/derby.jar
>
> java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
>
> java.runtime.version=1.8.0_40-b26
>
> user.dir=/
>
> os.name=SunOS
>
> os.arch=amd64
>
> os.version=5.10
>
> derby.system.home=/opt/csemlogger/glassfish4/databases
>
> Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath=''
>
> Database Class Loader started - derby.database.classpath='CSEM.csemderby'
>
> Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, 
> preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
> a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
> Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, 
> preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
> a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
> Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, 
> preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
> a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
> Derby could not obtain the locks needed to release the unused, 
> preallocated values for the sequence 'CSEM'.'LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE'. As
>
> a result, unexpected gaps may appear in this sequence.
>
> Here is the code used.   Note that it is using JPA, however the 
> LogEnty entity being inserted is not using the sequence.   All 
> LogEntry ID assignment is done manually using the result of the 
> sequence number retrieved (the slot assignment).
>
> private static void initializeLoggerEntryTable(SetupContext ctx, long 
> entryCount) {
>
>         EntityManager em = ctx.getEntityManager();
>
>         Query nextSeqQuery = em.createNativeQuery("VALUES (NEXT VALUE 
> FOR LOG_ENTRY_SEQUENCE)");
>
>         int j = 0;
>
>         // Create a transaction
>
> ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().begin();
>
>         for (int i = 0; i < entryCount; i++) {
>
>             long nextSeq = ((Long) 
> nextSeqQuery.getSingleResult()).longValue();
>
>             long slot = nextSeq % entryCount;
>
>             // See if there is a LogEntry at this slot
>
>             LogEntry logEntry = em.find(LogEntry.class, slot);
>
>             if (null == logEntry) {
>
>                 // There is not, so create one
>
>                 logEntry = new LogEntry();
>
> logEntry.setSlot(slot);
>
>                 // Persist the chassis template
>
>                 em.persist(logEntry);
>
>             }
>
>             // Commit the transaction
>
>             if (++j >= 10) {
>
> em.getTransaction().commit();
>
>                 em.clear();
>
> em.getTransaction().begin();
>
>                 j = 0;
>
>             }
>
>         }
>
> ctx.getEntityManager().getTransaction().commit();
>
>     }
>
> The sequence is not used outside of this code and there is no other 
> access to the database.   I don’t understand why some internal lock 
> could not be obtained.
>
> Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Canoga Perkins
> 20600 Prairie Street
> Chatsworth, CA 91311
> (818) 718-6300
>
> This e-mail and any attached document(s) is confidential and is 
> intended only for the review of the party to whom it is addressed. If 
> you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender 
> immediately and discard the original message and any attachment(s).