Re: Un set parameter in spfile

Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.08.16.04.18.34.729484_at_sbcglobal.net>...
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:08:43 +1000, Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> > Because, I suppose, the spfile has to be read in order to even get an
> > instance up and running. It's parsed before there is an instance to think
> > relationally.

And perhaps the people originally writing it were C-something programmers used to regular expressions and shell metacharacters, of which * means "character that matches any string."

>
> This is a valid answer to my question. You must be a mind reader or
> be using some clever defaults.

lol!

jg

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