On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:17:49 -0000, John Dunn <jdunn_at_sefas.com> wrote:
>
> <<I think the idea is to skip unusable indexes, do the load, then rebuild
> the indexes w/ NOLOGGING. If you rebuild the index before the load, the
> index maintenance will cause significant logging. It's faster and more
> efficient to load while indexes are unusable>>
>
> Thnaks for your comments, but rebuilding the indexes takes far longer than
> the time saved during the load, even with nologging!
>
> And it is still not clear to me what causes the index to become unusuable.
Maybe I'm all at sea here, but my understanding is that the index is
already marked UNUSABLE before the load starts. The error message is
telling you that you can't do the load because maintaining the index
is not possible because of the existing state of the index.
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