Re: ORA-1578...block corrupted...error is normal...a block...had a NOLOGGING...operation performed against

  • From: "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:32:06 +0200

A little wrap up:

"Only the following operations support the NOLOGGING mode: 

DML: direct-load INSERT (serial or parallel), Direct Loader (SQL*Loader) 

DDL: CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT, CREATE INDEX, ALTER INDEX ... REBUILD, ALTER 
INDEX ... REBUILD PARTITION, ALTER INDEX ... SPLIT PARTITION, ALTER TABLE ... 
SPLIT PARTITION, and ALTER TABLE ... MOVE PARTITION 

In NOLOGGING mode, data is modified with minimal logging (to mark new extents 
INVALID and to record dictionary changes). When applied during media recovery, 
the extent invalidation records mark a range of blocks as logically corrupt, 
because the redo data is not logged. Therefore, if you cannot afford to lose 
the object, you should take a backup after the NOLOGGING operation." 


Table Mode    Insert Mode     ArchiveLog mode      result
-----------   -------------   -----------------    ----------
LOGGING       APPEND          ARCHIVE LOG          redo generated
NOLOGGING     APPEND          ARCHIVE LOG          no redo
LOGGING       no append       ""                   redo generated
NOLOGGING     no append       ""                   redo generated
LOGGING       APPEND          noarchive log mode   no redo
NOLOGGING     APPEND          noarchive log mode   no redo
LOGGING       no append       noarchive log mode   redo generated
NOLOGGING     no append       noarchive log mode   redo generated



Regards
Dimitre Radoulov

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