what is the meaning of statistic_name='space_used' in v$segment_statistics?

  • From: Baziel de Leeuw <baziel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:51:45 +0200

Hi,

What does the statistic_name='space used' column in v$segment_statistics
show?

I get results i don't understand at all, e.g.

SQL> select owner, object_name, statistic_name, value from
v$segment_statistics where owner='SYS' and
object_name='WRI$_OPTSTAT_HISTGRM_HISTORY' and statistic_name='space used';

OWNER      OBJECT_NAME                    STATISTIC_NAME               VALUE
---------- ------------------------------ --------------- ------------------
SYS        WRI$_OPTSTAT_HISTGRM_HISTORY   space used                 -554110

Yes, that is a negative value.

I expected beforehand that space_used would be something like bytes in
memory or something like that.

Does anyone know what it actually is?

Baziel

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