Re: Why export has conventional path?

In article <38EDBCD5.3080_at_yahoo.com>,
  connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a simple export question.
> >
> > I know that using export by direct path mode is faster than
 using
> > the conventional path. I want to ask, why export not use the direct
 mode
> > as the default mode (or even delete the conventional mode)? Is
 there any
> > reason why export still has the converntional mode? What is the
 risk of
> > using direct mode during export?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
>
> Mainly to go between heterogenous environments I would imagine.
>
> HTH
> --
> ===========================================
> Connor McDonald
>

I do not believe that direct exports support exports tables with columns of type LOB so a conventional export is the only way to export these.

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