Re[2]: Shooting yourself in the spfile

  • From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Adam Donahue <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:57:58 -0500

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 7:42:54 PM, Adam Donahue (adonahue@xxxxxxxxxxx) 
wrote:
AD> An advantage of using an spfile is that when starting a database from 
AD> remote, the pfile might not be available

Right, but that's no reason to make the spfile a binary
file. The server could just as easily read a text file. Of
course, when changing parameters, I suppose it's easier for
the server to write a new value into a binary file than into
a text file.

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are
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