Nice to know the actual strategy.
I came across an oddity some time ago when trying to work this one out by setting silly values for INITRANS. This would be (correctly) ignored on a 'create index', and then obeyed on a 'rebuild index' with the result that the index got bigger. I think it was 8.1.5 - it doesn't reproduce in 8.1.7.3 Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Now running 3-day intensive seminars http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Host to The Co-Operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html Author of: Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases -----Original Message----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05 March 2002 03:05 | |And yes.. There is an upper bound for number of ITLs based on the block |size. |The transaction slots (and other headers) can not use the more than 50% of |the |space available for data in the data block. Each ITL will take 24 bytes of |space |in variable header part of the data block. | -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jonathan Lewis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
