Re: curious: v$database.log_type
- From: Harel Safra <harel.safra@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:31:45 +0300
They probably added it as a database property as part of the deprecating
log_archive_start.
The MANUAL part of "ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG MANUAL;" needed to set this
isn't found in 8i:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a85397/stateme3.htm#2048938
Harel Safra
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Niall Litchfield <
niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hmm, I'd have expected it the other way around, prior to 10g you had to
> explicitly start automatic archival (via log_archive_start). In those days
> if you enabled archiving but didn't set log_archive_start true then you had
> to manually archive. I don't have an 8/9 to experiment on to show this
> though.
>
> 2011/4/19 Vit Spinka <vit.spinka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just came across something I never heard about so far: Reference manual
>> states that v$database.log_type can be NOARCHIVELOG, ARCHIVELOG or MANUAL.
>> The question is: what does "MANUAL" mean?
>>
>> For sake of completeness:
>> It's mentioned in docs for 10.1, 10.2, 11.1 and 11.2.
>> 9.2 does not list the possible values at all.
>> 8.1.7 lists NOARCHIVELOG, ARCHIVELOG.
>> [That's all versions I found on tahiti.oracle.com]
>> Metalink also did not help in shedding any light.
>>
>> Any clues?
>> Vit
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> Niall Litchfield
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