Thanks Dimitre I read the who whole thread.
Still the following two items puzzle me from a technology point of view. 1. why is there no special case where the index is empty at the start of the transaction 2. why does it take as much undo space as the whole index, to undo a merge of something big into something non-existant.
I don't know. Found this explanation on asktom.
From Tom Kyte (http://tinyurl.com/rnoco):
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