RE: Extent allocation

What do you want, miracles? :-)
As you probably remember, DELETE ANY TABLE was indeed the privilege required to issue a TRUNCATE command, when TRUNCATE first became available (release 7.0, I think). They changed it early on to DROP ANY TABLE (7.1?), but the documentation has apparently been caste in stone. Sigh. Such is life in the big city of IS.

>>> jkstill_at_cybcon.com 02/09/01 11:55AM >>>

Indeed, the Concepts Manual affirms this in Chapter 4.

So why can't they correct the information regarding TRUNCATE?

Just after the section on extent allocation, the book states that the privilige needed to TRUNCATE a table is DELETE ANY TABLE, when in fact it should be DROP ANY TABLE.

Jared

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tim Sawmiller wrote:

> Somewhere in the depths of Oracle 8.1 documentation, you will find a description
> of the extent algorithm. It's supposed to be more "enlightened" in allocating
> blocks to extents, in that it will try to allocate just what you asked for,
> and also try to fill holes, so it no longer necessarily rounds up to the nearest 5
>blocks anymore.

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