Editing issues with large history may be slow after upgrading to Jira v9.5.x with Oracle Database

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Summary

This article describes a problem with issues takes a long time to update (8-20 seconds) after upgrading the Jira Data Center to version 9.5.x from 8.20.x.

Environment

Jira Data Center 9.5.x with Oracle Database

Diagnosis

  • The following stack trace was observed in the thread dump. Going through the stack trace, there appears to be a problem with the database driver itself.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 Stack trace oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.parser.ParseNode.descendants(ParseNode.java:48) oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleParameterMetaDataParser.findFirstDescendant(OracleParameterMetaDataParser.java:963) oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleParameterMetaDataParser.findBindVarNodeMetaData(OracleParameterMetaDataParser.java:1099) oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleParameterMetaDataParser.getParameterMetaDataSql_internal(OracleParameterMetaDataParser.java:584) oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleParameterMetaDataParser.getParameterMetaDataSql(OracleParameterMetaDataParser.java:1285) oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleParameterMetaData.<init>(OracleParameterMetaData.java:194) oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleParameterMetaData.getParameterMetaData(OracleParameterMetaData.java:150) oracle.jdbc.driver.OraclePreparedStatement.getParameterMetaData(OraclePreparedStatement.java:10566)

Cause

  • In this scenario, it was found that the Oracle Database driver version used is 23.2.0. However, this driver is not supported by Jira:

1 Database Driver                               : Oracle JDBC driver - 23.2.0.0.0
  • Driver information can be found in atlassian-jira.log file at time when Jira is started.

  • Refer to the Supported platforms documentation:

    • JDBC Driver: For all Oracle versions, use the JDBC 19.3 (ojdbc8) driver listed here. This is the driver we’re using to test Jira with Oracle.

Solution

Updated on April 2, 2025

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