Re: strang table locking

<yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:959q3d$ttr$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> A very minor point: Oracle does not call that a storage parameter; you
> can't change INITRANS or MAXTRANS in DEFAULT STORAGE. Oracle calls them
> physical properties or attributes of the table.
>
> Yong Huang

Hi Yong,

It *is* a minor point, and one I don't agree with. I didn't say initrans or maxtrans were part of a 'default storage clause', I said they were part of the 'storage clause'. That which is in a segment's storage clause (even if inherited, incidentally, via the *default* storage clause of the tablespace) becomes, by definition, the attributes of the table.

There's also the slightly more serious point that saying something is a 'physical property' of a table implies it cannot be changed very easily. I happen to thing that 'segments use blocks' or 'segments come in extents' are true physical properties of a table. Its initrans, pctfree, pctused, minextents, maxextents etc etc etc can ALL be changed, albeit with a little effort (change-export-drop-import or change-move tablespace).

HJR
> yong321_at_yahoo.com
>
> In article <3a755c8a_at_news.iprimus.com.au>,
> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote:
> > Jonathan: If inittrans is changed (it's only part of the sotrage
 clause
> > after all), will a move tablespace command result in the entire
 segment
> > picking up the new value?
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
>
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Received on Wed Jan 31 2001 - 15:18:32 CST