We don't have metalink support, but it was on the first 9i release. It happened when I flashed back one table, recovered it, and I tried to flashback again and then I couldn't, as if I would had done a ddl modification. Remember we don't apply patches in the database, so I think you will not have this problem. Other important thing is to know as I read 10g, allow full database flashback. In http://www.geocities.com/juancarlosreyesp/ I wrote an article about flashback some time ago I think this could be useful, http://www.geocities.com/juancarlosreyesp/OracleAskTom.pdf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arup Nanda" <orarup@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Undo Retention of 5 days; anyone? A bug? Could you elaborate on that, please? Bug#? >From: "Juan Cachito Reyes Pacheco" <jreyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: Undo Retention of 5 days; anyone? >Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:26:02 -0400 > >I set once to30 to test it. >I don't have an oltp only a small size database, and I didn't had problems >setting to 30 days, the best you can do is test it, the biggest problem I >had was the size of undo tablespace, no other secondary effect. >In my experience flashback is fast and nice except for a bug I found. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Arup Nanda" <orarup@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:42 AM >Subject: Undo Retention of 5 days; anyone? > > >List, >I have a very unusual request from users to have UNDO_RETENTION set to 5 >days. Normally I set to about 5 hours, not days. Don't ask why. They have >inherited a bad design that requires flashing back to 5 days ago and, no, >they can't redesign it. > >I'm curious if anyone has actually done it, i.e setting it to a very high >value. Any input will be highly appreciated. > >Thanks a lot in advance. > >Arup >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. >-- >Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ >FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. >-- >Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ >FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html >----------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Optimize your Internet experience to the max with the new MSN Premium Internet Software. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200359ave/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------