Re: Dynamic Partitioning using Segment Visibility Maps

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:26:54PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
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> I'm still puzzled about how a DBA is expected to figure out which 
> segments to mark. 

I think that part might be hand-wavy still.  But once this facility is
there, what's to prevent the current active segment (and the rest) from also
getting this mark, which would mean "the table is read only"?  

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