Keeping them binary gives them "power" I guses...
On most platforms there is just a hashed value on the first line.
In 9i R1 (9.0.1), I was able to replace some param value without changing number of chars on the
line, and the changes were taken without any problem (HP-UX 11, it was I think). Could not believe
that it worked. No such luck in 9i R2...
Binary, text, whatever, I will just stay away from him till pfile really goes away :)
- Kirti
- "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com> wrote:
> it isn't binary on solaris ... pure text ...
>
> Raj
>
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> sync with INIT.ORA ?)
>
>
> I can definitely appreciate the benefits of dynamic parameters, and of being
> able to persist the values of those parameters accross shutdown/startup
> cycles. But I would have guessed that oracle could have gotten both of
> those features together without going to a binary parameter file--couldn't
> whatever process writes to the spfile just write to a plain text file
> instead? Does anybody know what the advantage of having a binary store of
> params is?
>
> Cheers,
> -Roy
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