RE: TEMP segments

It did that for the longest time. It creates a temp segment so that if the create table table fails near the end, there doesn't have to be a complete rollback. SMON can come along and cleanup the segment. If the create table as has completed, the temp segment will be converted to a ordinary segment in the data dictionary.  

Anjo.  

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Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L  

I just found a new command that creates TEMP segments. It is well known that index creations first create the index segments as TEMP segments then 'convert' them to index segments upon completion. What I just found out (thanks to a failed operation) is that 'CREATE TABLE AS SELECT'
(ctas) also creates the segments as TEMP first.
 

Dan Fink

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