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Shrink table with LOB column

783262Dec 10 2010 — edited Dec 10 2010
Hello,
I have a table with 1.000.000 BLOB records. I updated almost a half of the records with NULL. Now I try to reclaim the free space using:
ALTER TABLE table MODIFY LOB (column) (SHRINK SPACE);

It's still running from some time, but what I am surprised about is that this operation generates a lot of redo logs (the full table had 30Gb, after the update it should have 15Gb, and by now I already have about 8Gb of generated archive logs).

Do you know why this operation generates redo logs?

Thank you,
Adrian
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