Re: DIRECT vs. CONVENTIONAL in Export

From: Doug Cowles <dcowles_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 20:52:45 -0400
Message-ID: <37AE265D.5294FC6E@bigfoot.com>

Would there also be a problem using direct if you were using exp/imp to upgrade a database from 7 to 8 or 8i etc., ?

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> I have a vague memory of there being some
> incompatibility between DIRECT and CONSISTENT.
>
> This isn't documents in 7.3.3, or 8+, so it may have
> been early versions of DIRECT, or possibly a bug.
> (Can anyone confirm ?)
>
> Also - for version 8.0 you cannot use DIRECT with
> LOBs and a couple of the other new data types
>
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