Sriram, No, this is not possible. A RAC database first has to be mounted in shared/parallel mode before any instance can open it. When one instance is in managed standby mode, it is mounted standby, not mounted shared/parallel or exclusive. So, the other instance can not even be mounted, much less be opened read-only or read-write. However, you probably can start the second instance in nomount mode, but that's not what takes the most time during a startup. Hope this helps... -Tim on 1/5/05 9:36 PM, Sriram Kumar at k.sriramkumar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi Gurus, > > Firstly, I wish each and everyone of you a very happy, prosperous and > a healthy New Year. > > I have a doubt regarding 2 Node RAC standby database. > > 1. We have a 2 Node RAC database running 9.2.0.4 > 2. We are planning to configure a 2 Node RAC standby database > 3. I understand from the Oracle docs that only one of the Nodes in a > RAC can be in a managed recovery mode. > > My question is: > > In the above context of one node performing a managed recovery and the > other node being idle, can we open the second node in a read only mode > ?. The manual says that I can't open the other node in read only mode > but why? would like to understand any limitations of the method > > I had raised a TAR and the response from Oracle is > > <Quote> > It sounds technically possible, but it is not in the product > today.Recovery is done when the database is in mount state and > readonly mode needs the database to be in open state. This state is > linked to the database and not the instance. So, basically, it sounds > like an potential enhancement request for future releases. > <Unquote> > > Thank you for your time > > Best Regards > > Sriram Kumar > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l