Re: flashback traffic still getting generated after 'alter tablespace flashback off'

  • From: Don Seiler <don@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: danp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:02:41 -0600

Do you have any guaranteed restore points? Those will also cause flashback
logs to be generated and will continue to fill the FRA until the restore
points are dropped.

Don.

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Dan Peacock <danp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I may be misunderstanding something here, but I was under the impression
> based on what I've read that if you want to exclude objects from being
> flashbackable then you would put them in a tablespace that has that has that
> turned off.  I've got two tables that I pull from another source each day
> that I don't care if I can flash them back to a prior state, so I want to
> reduce the load on the flahsback area an exclude them.  To test this out, I
> created a tablespace in one of my test instances that had the flashback
> setting turned off (i.e., ALTER TABLESPACE MMEY_NOFLASH FLASHBACK OFF).
>  When I moved the table in question, the amount of space in the flashback
> area didn't change (it's a 2.5GB table), so I figured I was golden.
>  However, I'm running the process that processes the changes (I insert new
> records and delete and readd changed records) and I'm experiencing the same
> level of flashback file generation that I am seeing on the flashbackable
> table in production.  What gives?  What am I missing?
>
> Database version = 11.2.0.1 (with a few interim patches applied)
> OS version = Linux RHEL 64-bit
>
>
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