From JayMiller@TDWaterhouse.com Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:36:39 -0700 From: "Miller, Jay" Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:36:39 -0700 Subject: Index space not freed when rows deleted? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain I'm puzzled. We had a table that hit maximum extents on our QA server (unlike production it isn't cleaned out on a daily basis). I deleted most of the rows, leaving only a few thousand. The next day, when inserting more rows I hit the maxextents exceeded error on an index on that table (of course the number of extents hadn't been reduced but I would have thought there'd be plenty of room in 121 existing extents after most of the rows were deleted). I rebuilt the index and it went from 121 extents to 1 extent, resolving the problem, but leaving some curiosity. It's a primary key sequence based index. Any ideas? Jay Miller -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Miller, Jay INET: JayMiller@TDWaterhouse.com 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: ListGuru@fatcity.com (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).