On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Martin Berger wrote:
If anyone want to have fun, just run this simple testcase:use your 11.2.0.2 rdbms binaries (linux and hp-ux tested, but others will also work).create a small pfile: db_name=test db_block_size=2048 db_create_file_dest=/tmp set any ORACLE SID and run create database character set al32utf8; I'd like to see your results ;-) (I can give some more infos, do not waste time for investigations)
Wow that's broken. 2K block size doesn't really seem like much of an edge case. 8k block size works fine, but you already know that.
SQL> create database character set al32utf8; create database character set al32utf8 * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01092: ORACLE instance terminated. Disconnection forced ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failedORA-01519: error while processing file '?/rdbms/admin/doptim.bsq' near line 416
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1ORA-01429: Index-Organized Table: no data segment to store overflow row-pieces
Process ID: 2246 Session ID: 87 Serial number: 3 Removed db_block_size from the pfile, and" SQL> create database character set al32utf8; Database created. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.bluegecko.net