Re: What is the purpose of segment level checkpoint before DROP/TRUNCATE of a table?

Everyone, Thanks for trying to answer my question.

Jonathan, Your answer explains "why for drop". Why do you consider it as a
side effect on truncate for piggy backing on same code? i.e. What is wrong
with Truncate honoring Cross-DDL read-consistency?

Can you connect this with anything regarding recovery and PITR?

Thanks,
Paresh

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jonathan Lewis <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

>
> Mark,
>
> You've given me a clue.
>
> Cross-DDL read-consistency - e.g. long running query meets exchange
> partition.
>
> The query is allowed to continue because it know the physical location of
> the original partition, and the query will only crash if something
> overwrites the original.  This came in in 8.1 I think, possibly even 8.0.
>
> I've just run:
>
> session 1 - start long running query against IOT
> session 2 - drop IOT, flush buffer cache
> session 1 - carries on running, after re-reading the block from disk.
>
> The same test fails instantly with truncate because truncate does its local
> write to overwrite the root block of the IOT with an empty block, so session
> 1 immediately gets ORA-01410 invalid rowid.  However the cross-DDL
> requirement would explain the writes on drop, and perhaps the writes on
> truncate are simply a side effect of piggy-backing the same code rather than
> writing a new piece.
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://jonathanlewis.**wordpress.com <http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 3:07 PM
> Subject: RE: What is the purpose of segment level checkpoint before
> DROP/TRUNCATE of a table?
>
>
>
>  I now see your concern about the ability to checksum. But that is not
>> guaranteed (or needed by the recovery model) and since those blocks are no
>> longer assigned to a segment any contents are immaterial. If someone is
>> doing checksums or binary diffs between datafiles through the same point
>> in
>> recovery, it might break their sanity check, but it does not compromise
>> the
>> integrity of the standby in any way I can grok.
>>
>>
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Thanks
Paresh
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