EVENT: DROP_SEGMENTS - Forcing cleanup of TEMPORARY segments (Doc ID 47400.1)

The DROP_SEGMENTS event ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Available from 8.0 onwards. DESCRIPTION Finds all the temporary segments in a tablespace which are not currently locked and drops them. For the purpose of this event a "temp" segment is defined as a segment (seg$ entry) with TYPE#=3. Sort space in a TEMPORARY tablespace does not qualify under this definition as such space is managed independently of SEG$ entries. PARAMETERS level - tablespace number+1. If the value is 2147483647 then temp segments in ALL tablespaces are dropped, otherwise, only segments in a tablespace whose number is equal to the LEVEL specification are dropped. NOTES This routine does what SMON does in the background, i.e. drops temporary segments. It is provided as a manual intervention tool which the user may invoke if SMON misses the post and does not get to clean the temp segments for another 2 hours. We do not know whether missed post is a real possibility or more theoretical situation, so we provide this event as an insurance against SMON misbehaviour. Under normal operation there is no need to use this event. It may be a good idea to alter tablespace <tablespace> coalesce; after dropping lots of extents to tidy things up. *SQL Session (if you can connect to the database): alter session set events 'immediate trace name DROP_SEGMENTS level TS#+1'; The TS# can be obtained from v$tablespace view: select ts# from v$tablespace where name = '<Tablespace name>'; Or from SYS.TS$: select ts# from sys.ts$ where name = '<Tablespace name>' and online$ != 3; If ts# is 5, an example of dropping the temporary segments in that tablespace would be: alter session set events 'immediate trace name DROP_SEGMENTS level 6';

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