RE: Partitions of table read only

Maybe because drop table is actually a modification of the data dictionary. I recall that Oracle training thing where they have you start a long-running select on a table in one session, then drop the table in another session, and the select on the dropped table keeps on running OK.

It does seem that a change to the tablespace itself would eventually happen ... maybe when it is brought back online the available storage space gets updated to reflect the disappearance of the table???

> -----Original Message-----
> I could actually drop the table, something I didn't think
> could happen in an LMT when it was read-only.

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