No, freelists/freelist groups do not apply if you're using ASSM. ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ram Raman [veeeraman@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 19:58 To: ORACLE-L Subject: Freelist group setting Hi, We are moving from single node to RAC on a 10g database that runs peoplesoft 10.2. They are on different hardware plaforms. I extracted the ddls for creating tablespaces from the old single isntance server to the new RAC server. I have attached one sample index below. Do I need to worry about the freelist, freelist group setting, given that that the tablespaces use ASSM: 1* select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('INDEX','PS_PSACCESSLOG') from dual SYSADM@SID<mailto:SYSADM@SID>> / more.. DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('INDEX', -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREATE INDEX "SYSADM"."PS_PSACCESSLOG" ON "SYSADM"."PSACCESSLOG" ("OPRID", "LO GIPADDRESS", "LOGINDTTM") PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE STATISTICS STORAGE(INITIAL 40960 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "PSINDEX" SYSADM@SID<mailto:SYSADM@SID>> SYSADM@SID<mailto:SYSADM@SID>> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLESPACE','PSINDEX') from dual; more.. DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLESP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CREATE TABLESPACE "PSINDEX" DATAFILE '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex1' SIZE 8589934592 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5242880 MAXSIZE 32767M, '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex2' SIZE 8589934592 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5242880 MAXSIZE 32767M, '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex3' SIZE 8589934592 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5242880 MAXSIZE 32767M, '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex4' SIZE 8589934592 AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5242880 MAXSIZE 32767M LOGGING ONLINE PERMANENT BLOCKSIZE 8192 EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex1' RESIZE 21361590272 ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex2' RESIZE 21141389312 ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex3' RESIZE 21188575232 ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE '+INDEX/SID/datafile/psindex4' RESIZE 21167603712 Thanks. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l