dunno.... but then the docs are ambiguous aren't they? They can be read
as active in that tablespace
in any case once I bounced the database and was the only session, I
could make it read only. More importantly, and germane to the original
question, I could actually drop the table, something I didn't think
could happen in an LMT when it was read-only.
- "Daniel W. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Food for thought...
> How does Oracle know that an existing transaction (which may be more
> than the current statement) will not alter data in the RO Tablespace
> until the transaction is completed (rollback/commit)?
>
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>
>
> Rachel Carmichael wrote:
>
> >The admin guide doesn't say "no transactions in the database". In
> fact,
> >it specifically says in the tablespace:
> >
> >" You do not have to wait for transactions to complete before
> issuing
> >the ALTER TABLESPACE...READ ONLY statement. When the statement is
> >issued, the target tablespace goes into a transitional read-only
> mode
> >in which no further DML statements are allowed, though existing
> >transactions that modified the tablespace will be allowed to commit
> or
> >rollback. Once this occurs, the tablespace is quiesced, with respect
> to
> >active transactions."
> >
> >There were other transactions in the database, but none affecting
> that
> >tablespace.
> >
> >The concepts guide is somewhat ambiguous and could be read either as
> >"in the database" or "against the tablespace" since it isn't
> specified.
> >
> >
> >Have I mentioned lately that I hate the docs? :)
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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