Re: ITC value is higher than MAXTRANS for index blocks

Jonathan:

I have also seen this in couple of cases earlier (with non ASSM tablespace also). I suspect this could be a bug. The variable part of the datablock can not exceed 50% of the block size and in practice we don't need to allocate more 'itc' than 'nrows'. That is a total waste of space,

KG

On 11/25/05, Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I saw your post on AskTom, and followed that one up
> before I got this. But in direct answer to your question.
> It IS possible to get itc > maxtrans on TABLES (because
> of the oddity I describe in the note on AskTom), so
> maybe it can happen on indexes too.
>
> Regards
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> Jonathan Lewis
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> Subject: ITC value is higher than MAXTRANS for index blocks
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> Dear All,
>
> Env:
> Oracle 9.2.0.6 3-Node RAC,Sun OS 2.9
> Block size 16K
> At this point we took block dump for an index using below statement;
> select 'alter system dump datafile 9 block min '||c1||' block max '||c2||';'
> from (select block_id c1,(block_id + blocks-1) c2 from dba_extents
> where segment_name='T1_PK')
> SQL> /
>
> 'ALTERSYSTEMDUMPDATAFILE9BLOCKMIN'||C1||'BLOCKMAX'||C2||';'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> alter system dump datafile 9 block min 23889 block max 23896;
>
>
> The block dump shows ITC value as 255 for 3 out of 8 blocks even though the
> maxtrans value
> is defined as 4.
>
> Question:
> Is it possible to have ITC value higher than MAXTRANS value?
>
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