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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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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