From: Ann W. Harrison
Date: November 11 2008 9:59pm
Subject: Re: Question on The 3 phases Of Recovery
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Vlad,

> In theory, phase 1 should have no access to physical structures , e.g
> tablespaces , incarnations are bumped, nothing else happens.With your
> explanation, I think *all* reallocPage should be done then on phase2 and all
> allocPage if any should be done in redo, is this correct?  I could put
> ASSERTs for that

That would be good.  If there are any allocPage's in phase 2, we
(meaning you) should find a way to move them out to redo.

> 
> If this is so, I can populate droppedTablespaces bitmap during phase1, and
> during phase2 or redo skip all records that reference non-existing
> tablespaces.  

That would be good ...

> It is exactly what I have done in the patch, but this time just
> without any exception handling, as we do not expect access to the
> tablespaces in the phase1.

Fine.  That sounds very clean ... nearly elegant.

Best,

Ann