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Correct -
If there are 290 bytes of free space,
and the PCTFREE means that 200 of them
should be left free, and you try to insert a
91 byte row, then the block will be pushed
onto the free list with 290 bytes of free space
and the next block on the freelist will be
examined.
-- Jonathan Lewis Seminars on getting the best out of Oracle Last few places available for Sept 10th/11th See http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Rene Nyffenegger wrote in message ...Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 13:37:04 CDT
>
>>It goes off the free list when oracle attempts
>>to insert a row, and the effect of inserting that
>>row would take the space usage over PCTFREE.
>
>Does 'would take the space usage over PCTFREE' indicate, that
>the row is not inserted at all, if space usage goes over PCTFREE?
>My understanding until now was, that a row gets inserted into a
>block as long as space usage is below PCTFREE and the new row
>fits into the block.
>
>Rene
>
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