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Can you elaborate on exactly what happened? 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 is just a catalog script and a binary change. What error did you encounter, and at which step in the upgrade? Extents should not matter in an upgrade.
-- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Dave Morgan wrote:Received on Mon Jan 21 2002 - 13:30:58 CST
> Actually, in extreme cases ( >87000 in my case, and I had 12
> tables
> like that) it can cause problems with upgrading. Not sure what, but we
> had to do CTAS into new tables with much larger extents to do the
> upgrade from 8.1.5 to 8.1.6 here. Had Oracle support and consultants
> baffled also
>
> I still like to keep the number of extents below 500, but I'm paranoid
> :)
>
> Rachel wrote:
> Snip ....
> > There really is NO reason to worry about large numbers of extents these
> > days. I mean, I wouldn't want to really test the "unlimited" ability
> > but other than that, there is no problem.
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