Oracle-L: Differing statuses returned from dba_rollback

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:58:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004A52B6.20020729125840@fatcity.com>

Okay, so today one of our QA databases suddenly started spewing out ora-1552 errors. Turned out all of the rollback segments had a status of FULL. The problem was quickly fixed by taking the rollback segments offline, then back online. The reason why the rollback segments all became FULL is another story.

Anyway, before the problem was fixed we queried both dba_rollback_segs and v$rollstat to get the status of the rollback segments. v$rollstat returned FULL, but dba_rollback_segs returned ONLINE.

I thought this was interesting (I'm easily amused) so I dug up the DDL for the two views (shown below). The two views appear to get their information from two different places, and both use DECODEs to make the status meaningful. But, there's no DECODE value for FULL in dba_rollback_segs. In fact, the status values for the two can be quite different.

Why are they different? This bothers me. Steve Orr is off fishing today so he's not here to provide a rational explanation.

Is anyone else bothered by this? Or, should I just laugh it off, pick up the shattered pieces of my life, and soldier on?

I've also posted this on the appropriate (I think) Metalink forum.

Thanks,
--Walt Weaver

Bozeman, Montana

create or replace view DBA_ROLLBACK_SEGS

(SEGMENT_NAME, OWNER, TABLESPACE_NAME, SEGMENT_ID, FILE_ID, BLOCK_ID,

     INITIAL_EXTENT, NEXT_EXTENT,
     MIN_EXTENTS, MAX_EXTENTS, PCT_INCREASE,
     STATUS, INSTANCE_NUM, RELATIVE_FNO)

select un.name, decode(un.user#,1,'PUBLIC','SYS'),
       ts.name, un.us#, f.file#, un.block#,
       s.iniexts * ts.blocksize,
       decode(bitand(ts.flags, 3), 1, to_number(NULL),
                                      s.extsize * ts.blocksize),
       s.minexts, s.maxexts,
       decode(bitand(ts.flags, 3), 1, to_number(NULL),
                                      s.extpct),
       decode(un.status$, 2, 'OFFLINE', 3, 'ONLINE',
                          4, 'UNDEFINED', 5, 'NEEDS RECOVERY',
                          6, 'PARTLY AVAILABLE', 'UNDEFINED'),
       decode(un.inst#, 0, NULL, un.inst#), un.file#
from sys.undo$ un, sys.seg$ s, sys.ts$ ts, sys.file$ f
where un.status$ != 1
  and un.ts# = s.ts#

  and un.file# = s.file#
  and un.block# = s.block#
  and s.type# = 1
  and s.ts# = ts.ts#
  and un.ts# = f.ts#
  and un.file# = f.relfile#

GV$ROLLSTAT
select
inst_id,kturdusn,kturdext,kturdsiz,kturdwrt,kturdnax,kturdget,kturdwat, d ecode(kturdopt, -1,to_number(null), kturdopt), kturdhwm,kturdnsh,kturdnwp,kturdn
ex, kturdash,kturdaae, decode(kturdflg, 0,'ONLINE', 2,'PENDING OFFLINE', 3,'OFFL
INE', 4, 'FULL', 'UNKNOWN'), kturdcex, kturdcbk from x$kturd where kturd
siz!=0 and kturdflg != 3
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Differing statuses returned from dba_rollback_segs and v$rollstat