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The rbs does not shrink to optimal when the transaction commits. The 2nd
transaction to 'find' that the rbs has extended beyond optimal will
cause the rbs to shrink.
-- Daniel W. Fink http://www.optimaldba.com Thomas Day wrote:Received on Thu Jun 05 2003 - 10:50:00 CDT
>With optimal, the rollback segment shrinks back to its optimal size as soon
>as the update, insert, or delete transaction is committed. However, there
>may be a long running query that is using that rollback segment for a
>consistent view of the database. If the rollback segment shrinks, the
>query cannot find the data that it needs. This results in a snapshot too
>old error.
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