From jkstill@cybcon.com Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:39:53 -0700 From: Jared Still Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:39:53 -0700 Subject: Re: Index space not freed when rows deleted? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jay, Index blocks can be reused, but unlike a table block, they are not reused until *all* data is removed from the block. So if you remove most rows, it won't help if most blocks still have a pointer to a row. Jared On Wednesday 15 August 2001 13:48, Miller, Jay wrote: > I'm puzzled. > We had a table that hit maximum extents on our QA server (unlike production > it isn't cleaned out on a daily basis). I deleted most of the rows, > leaving only a few thousand. > The next day, when inserting more rows I hit the maxextents exceeded error > on an index on that table (of course the number of extents hadn't been > reduced but I would have thought there'd be plenty of room in 121 existing > extents after most of the rows were deleted). I rebuilt the index and it > went from 121 extents to 1 extent, resolving the problem, but leaving some > curiosity. > It's a primary key sequence based index. Any ideas? > > > Jay Miller -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: jkstill@cybcon.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).