Tim -- that adds new blocks above the HWM?
I wonder if any command that adds new blocks (vs inserting rows into
existing ones) automatically creates the new blocks as TEMP segments.
Logically it makes sense but I wonder if it's documented anywhere.
- Tim Gorman <Tim_at_SageLogix.com> wrote:
> ...as does INSERT /*+ APPEND PARALLEL */...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fink, Dan
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:15 PM
> Subject: TEMP segments
>
>
> I just found a new command that creates TEMP segments. It is well
> known that index creations first create the index segments as TEMP
> segments then 'convert' them to index segments upon completion. What
> I just found out (thanks to a failed operation) is that 'CREATE TABLE
> AS SELECT' (ctas) also creates the segments as TEMP first.
>
> Dan Fink
>
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