Barb,
As per my understanding of delayed block count, the definition that you
give, is apt for Oracle 7.3 and below. Your statement that it does not
clean the datablocks that were modified also holds true.
To add further, starting with Oracle 8, Oracle introduced a fast commit
mechanism, where
OK, I'm moving this question back to the list, since my understanding
of delayed block cleanout is so weak.
Here's the definition I found of delayed block cleanout:
When a data or index block is modified in the database and the
transaction committed, Oracle does a fast commit by marking
