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FBDA: ORA-00600: [ktfa_purge_history] MANUAL OR AUTOPURGE WITH SYS_FBA_FA PURGESCN = 0 (Doc ID 2531217.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

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For the purposes of this document, the following fictitious environment is used as an example to describe the procedure:

Flashback Archive: FDA1,FDA2,FDA3

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The alert.log shows:

2018-12-31T08:22:44.747289-05:00
Restarting dead background process FBDA
Starting background process FBDA
2018-12-31T08:22:44.777622-05:00
FBDA started with pid=241, OS id=27232
PST06P(3):DDE: Problem Key 'ORA 600 [ktfa_auto_purge_fba: failure to get purge SCN]' was completely flood controlled (0x6)
Further messages for this problem key will be suppressed for up to 10 minutes
2018-12-31T08:22:49.735122-05:00
PST06P(3):Slave archiving 1 large/PDB transactions
2018-12-31T08:23:06.819348-05:00
PST06P(3):Slave archiving 1 large/PDB transactions

MANUAL PURGE PROCESS
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Each command raised the same ORA-600 [ktfa_auto_purge_fba: failure to get purge SCN]


ALTER FLASHBACK ARCHIVE FDA1 PURGE BEFORE SCN 12578841285640;
ALTER FLASHBACK ARCHIVE FDA2 PURGE BEFORE SCN 12578841285640;
ALTER FLASHBACK FDA3 PURGE BEFORE SCN 12578841285640;

Cause

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