9i creating indexes with the ONLINE option

Hi folks, anyone experienced any problems with creating indexes on table in 9iR2 specifying the ONLINE option?

It doesn't *appear* to do as expected - i.e. allowing a new index to be created on a table whilst DML is occurring on the table on which the index is being built. All DML was suspended pending completion of the index creation when I tried this yesterday:

  create index mytab_n1
  on mytab (date_start) ONLINE
  tablespace ts_index;

Are there some known bugs with this? Or am I missing something?

-- 
jeremy



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   Oracle 9iR2 / Oracle HTTP Server / mod_plsql / Solaris 8 


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