I believe you are seeing a mismatch between the controlfile and the
data dictionary... Basically, you started up your database and the data
dictionary says you have tablespace "blah " associated with file id "x "
but the controlfile doesn 't have a file for that tablespace... So, it
places a dummy placeholder file in it 's place... You can simulate this
but doing the following:
$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba "
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.3.0 - Production on Wed May 26 11:37:32 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL > Create Tablespace Tim Datafile '/export/home/oradata/PV429/tim.dbf '
size 10M;
>We have this QA database which I can mostly ignore but Mr. QA dude found
>a bug caused by the compatible init.ora parameter not being properly
>set. Since they kind of admin their own database and know the timing of
>their database availability needs for QA testing, I gave QA dude
>instructions on recycling the database...
> "SQL > shutdown abort " and "SQL > startup "=20
>
>But the database didn 't come back up due to a shared memory error so I
>figured I 'd have to fix things with ipcs/ipcrm. But before getting into
>that I just tried "SQL > startup " myself and behold, everything started
>up just fine with no warning messages or anything. Hmmm... That 's
>curious... I guess the oracle just likes me better. I was in
>$ORACLE_HOME/dbs verifying the existence of the "lk$ORACLE_SID " file
>when I saw something curious... A 100MB file named "MISSING00042 " which
>had the same database startup timestamp as the lk$ORACLE_SID file and
>wondered what it was and where it came from. So I queried dba_data_files
>and the data file with file_id 42 has the path of
>$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/MISSING00042. Whoa!!! That directory path and 100MB are
>the default values when using Oracle-managed files and 42 is the answer
>to all things! But we don 't use Oracle-managed files. Curious but how
>could the oracle create this datafile automagically for me and not even
>tell me? Where 's it going to get the data? Then I look at dba_segments
>and see that there 's only one object in that tablespace/datafile, an
>index which could be rebuilt from the data in another tablespace the
>table is in. Does this mean that the oracle couldn 't find the datafile
>but created it for me automagically just because it could and because
>the only object was an index?=20
>
>Has anybody seen this behavior before? Is there any documentation on it?
>Running Oracle 9.2.0.4 on Linux.
>
>
>Steve Orr
>Curious in Bozeman, Montana
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