Re: ITC value is higher than MAXTRANS for index blocks

  • From: "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx>, "oracle list" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:29:14 -0000


I saw your post on AskTom, and followed that one up before I got this. But in direct answer to your question. It IS possible to get itc > maxtrans on TABLES (because of the oddity I describe in the note on AskTom), so maybe it can happen on indexes too.

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Jonathan Lewis

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sami Seerangan" <dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "oracle list" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 9:47 PM
Subject: ITC value is higher than MAXTRANS for index blocks



Dear All,

Env:
Oracle 9.2.0.6  3-Node RAC,Sun OS 2.9
Block size 16K
At this point we took block dump for an index using below statement;
select 'alter system dump datafile 9 block min '||c1||' block max '||c2||';'
from (select block_id c1,(block_id + blocks-1) c2 from dba_extents
where segment_name='T1_PK')
SQL> /

'ALTERSYSTEMDUMPDATAFILE9BLOCKMIN'||C1||'BLOCKMAX'||C2||';'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
alter system dump datafile 9 block min 23889 block max 23896;


The block dump shows ITC value as 255 for 3 out of 8 blocks even though the maxtrans value is defined as 4.

Question:
Is it possible to have ITC value higher than MAXTRANS value?


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