Thank you for this answer. It was driving me crazy. Can I assume that it falls into the ". exporting posttables actions" portion of my export? On 2/10/06, Jonathan Lewis <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There are various post-import tasks that belong > to certain schema. OUTLN has one, and one > of its jobs is to delete outlines that are not self- > consistent. It certainly used to be the case in 8i > that you could manually "adjust" an outline in a > way that would make it do what you wanted, > but which would not survive an exp/imp. > > Regards > > Jonathan Lewis > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html > The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/cbo_book/ind_book.html > Cost Based Oracle: Fundamentals > > http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/appearances.html > Public Appearances - schedule updated 2nd Feb 2006 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lidh" <kevin.lidh@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 5:50 PM > Subject: OUTLN schema import oddity > > > We have a production system in which we created 12 stored outlines. So if > you log in as outln you can say: select count(*) from ol$ and get > 12. When > I do an export, I see this: > > exp outln file=test.dmp rows=y > > Export: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Feb 10 09:26:32 2006 > > Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Password: > > Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining > options > JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character > set > > About to export specified users ... > . exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions > . exporting foreign function library names for user OUTLN > . exporting PUBLIC type synonyms > . exporting private type synonyms > . exporting object type definitions for user OUTLN > About to export OUTLN's objects ... > . exporting database links > . exporting sequence numbers > . exporting cluster definitions > . about to export OUTLN's tables via Conventional Path ... > . . exporting table OL$ 12 rows > exported > . . exporting table OL$HINTS 904 rows > exported > . . exporting table OL$NODES 11 rows > exported > > > ....< ~~ truncated for e-mail brevity > > Export terminated successfully without warnings. > > Then when I import, I see this: > > imp outln file=test.dmp full=y ignore=y > > Import: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Fri Feb 10 10:12:24 2006 > > Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. > > Password: > > Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options > JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production > > Export file created by EXPORT:V09.02.00 via conventional path > import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set > import server uses WE8MSWIN1252 character set (possible charset > conversion) > export client uses WE8MSWIN1252 character set (possible charset > conversion) > . importing OUTLN's objects into OUTLN > . . importing table "OL$" 12 rows > imported > . . importing table "OL$HINTS" 904 rows > imported > . . importing table "OL$NODES" 11 rows > imported > Import terminated successfully without warnings. > > But when I do a select count(*) on our test system, I get this: > > select count(*) from ol$; > > COUNT(*) > ---------- > 9 > And there are only 678 hints as well. I've tried moving the table to a > tablespace outside of SYSTEM (which is only 4% full), granting "dba" to > OUTLN, setting quota to unlimited on SYSTEM to OUTLN, used consistent=y on > the export and it always comes out the same. No errors on import but only > 9 > records. To make things more confusing for me, I imported into a > different > schema and got all 12 records. Has anyone ever seen this? I'm stumped. > I'm not seeing any errors in the alert log either (or trace files > generated). > > >