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Re: Snapshot too old during stress test... how to avoid

From: Daniel W. Fink <optimaldba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:50:00 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005AB04D.20030605075000@fatcity.com>


The rbs does not shrink to optimal when the transaction commits. The 2nd transaction to 'find' that the rbs has extended beyond optimal will cause the rbs to shrink.

-- 
Daniel W. Fink
http://www.optimaldba.com


Thomas Day wrote:


>With optimal, the rollback segment shrinks back to its optimal size as soon
>as the update, insert, or delete transaction is committed. However, there
>may be a long running query that is using that rollback segment for a
>consistent view of the database. If the rollback segment shrinks, the
>query cannot find the data that it needs. This results in a snapshot too
>old error.
>
>
>
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