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Temp tablespace does not release occupied space (Doc ID 1901072.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 29, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

 Temp tablespace does not release occupied space,trying to find offending segment that highly consume temp space leads to below results:


We can see that the temporary segments are all (except one) due to temporary
tables. We can also see that there in fact few temporary tables according to
dba_tables.

Changes

 None

Cause

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