Hi Tony, > Because I have a global PK index I thought > that letting the table grow would > have an adverse affect on performance for this index, so archiving a > partition off would make sense. Yes, that is true, but on the other side you loose the control of uniqueness; a duplicated record could be re-entered after archiving the former one. If you check the unique constraint (i.e. non of the records in the temporary table exists in the partitioned table) *before* each exchange partition (and you move the duplicated records in an exception table before the exchange) you probably don't need the global index at all. Regards Jaromir ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tony.Adolph@xxxxxx> To: <jaromir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Partitioning problems - Oracle 8.1.7.4 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l