Online redo logs for RAC instances should be placed on shared storage, so each instance has access to all redo logs. From documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14229/ha_streams.htm#i1006387 "Using RAC with Streams introduces some important considerations. When running in a RAC cluster, a capture process runs on the instance that owns the queue that is receiving the captured logical change records (LCRs)." Ilmar On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Paul Harrison <cure@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I thought streams input is the redo logs and every instance has its own redo > logs. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Hemant K Chitale > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:28 PM > To: cure@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: RAC- Replication > > Data replicatiin (whether Basic or Advanced Replication or Streams or Golden > Gate) is not tied to the instance of a RAC database that it is replicating > from. (Golden Gate would have to read from all the redo threads of the > database). > It is from database to database not from instance to instance. Both "data > nodes" access the same database. > Hemant K Chitale > -- Ilmar Kerm -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l