Re: Optimal Rollback Segment Size Question

From: Chris eastland <extel_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 00:06:31 GMT
Message-ID: <Cxy2yv.Gp5_at_world.std.com>


mlcampb1_at_ingr.com (Mike Campbell) writes:

>I know that in Oracle 7 rollback segments can shrink back to a pre-defined
>optimal size, but I need to know how to make this work.
 

>For example, I have a rollback segment that currently as 13 extents allocated
>using approx. 2.8M of space. If I set the optimal size to 200K, how do I force
>Oracle to shrink this rollback segment.

I think you'll find a set transaction use rollback on that segment plus a few heftyish before-image creations will do the trick! It seems to need a bit of a kick to get it trundling back to optimal. Don't know the exact algorithm..

chris Received on Thu Oct 20 1994 - 01:06:31 CET

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