Free space management in Blocks

I read in the Oracle 9i Concepts document, that a free space generated by deleting or updating of data can be used only by an insert statement in the same transaction as of delete/update or any insert statement immediately after the DML statement. So does that mean if there is no immediate insert statement that free space will never be used ? Please clarify my doubt. Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 06:34:12 CDT