Re: How does dropping a partition affect the rest of the table?

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Gregory Conron wrote:
>unless a user is running a query or transaction against the data in
> the partition (the query/transaction will fail).

d'oh! must correct myself - if a user is running a transaction against the data, the alter table drop will fail as it will not be able to obtain an exclusive lock.

Cheers,
GC

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