We rarely had problems with LOBs and ASSM on 9204 rac. We have one app that only breaths CLOBS. The only issue (that caused us trouble) was with freeling temp LOBS. That was easily fixed by creating/destroying temp lob in another procedure inside the package. The lob got dutifully destroyed then.
It is still working fine on 10.1.0.4 RAC. on an average day that app creates and manipulates many many thousands of lobs each day.
Guess we are using the right container version after all. Raj
- IF you have LOBs in your db and you're planning to go for ASSM tablespaces, I'd suggest a loooong session searching Metalick for bugs relating to such an environment. And make darn sure whatever level of software noted there as having the patches be the one installed.
It's not too long ago that I spent a night fishing left-over blobs out of a tablespace utterly corrupt by a combination of ASSM and LOB segments. In 9ir2, but the snags were there with 10g as well.
9.2.0.8 apparently - or so Metalick says - fixes all that. So does one the latest 10.2 release.
Bottom line: LOB and ASSM don't mix unless you've used the right container versions.
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