Re: Exports with pipes

From: <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:40:43 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <10743.126812@fatcity.com>

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, lerobe - Lee Robertson wrote:

> Anyone noticed any unreliability/errors/probems/bugs etc. in using pipes
> whilst exporting big tables.
>
> As we are having space issues for export files we were going to use the
> above method. One of our DBAs however reckons that he has had problems
> before with this method and that it can be unreliable.
>
> Oracle 8.0.5.0.0, Tru64 Unix V4.0f
>

At my previous job, all of my exports were pushed through a pipe so they could be compressed via gzip.

*Never* caused a problem.

Your DBA's previous errors may have been and error in execution. Received on Tue Jan 16 2001 - 11:40:43 CST