Me: "How can a 10.2 physical standby (LGWR + ASYNC) be configured to automatically purge the archive logs from the primary after they have been applied?" Support: "For logical standby we have the automation is in place. for physical standby you have to do the purge manually for now" Is this true? It seems like there should be something better by now. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l