ALTER DATABASE CLEAR LOGFILE?

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Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 22:32:01 GMT
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I was going through some manuals explaining features of Oracle 7.3, and I came across this:

ALTER DATABASE CLEAR LOGFILE It is now possible to reinitialize redo log files during recovery. For example: ALTER DATABASE CLEAR UNARCHIVED LOGFILE ’somefile’ UNRECOVERABLE DATAFILE;

What does it mean and what situation will prompt me to take this action? Thanks,
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