5 CTX_ADM Package

MARK_FAILED

Use this procedure to change the status of an index from LOADING to FAILED.

Under rare circumstances, if CREATE INDEX or ALTER INDEX fails, an index may be left with the status LOADING. Once an index is in LOADING status, any attempt to recover using RESUME INDEX is blocked. For this situation, you can use CTX_ADM.MARK_FAILED to forcibly change the status from LOADING to FAILED so that you can recover the index with RESUME INDEX.

You must log on as CTXSYS in order to run CTX_ADM.MARK_FAILED.

CTX_ADM.MARK_FAILED works with local partitioned indexes. However, it changes the status of all partitions to FAILED. Therefore, you should rebuild all index partitions with ALTER INDEX REBUILD PARTITION PARAMETERS ('RESUME') after using CTX_ADM.MARK_FAILED. If you run ALTER INDEX PARAMETER ('RESUME') after this operation, Oracle resets the index partition status to valid. Oracle does not rebuild the index partitions that were successfully built before the MARK_FAILED operation.

Syntax

CTX_ADM.MARK_FAILED(
  owner_name     in    VARCHAR2,
  index_name     in    VARCHAR2);

owner_name

The name of the owner of the index whose status is to be changed.

section_name

The name of the index whose status is to be changed.

Example

begin
   CTX_ADM.MARK_FAILED('owner_1', 'index_1');
end;

RECOVER

The RECOVER procedure cleans up the Text data dictionary, deleting objects such as leftover preferences.

Syntax

CTX_ADM.RECOVER;

Example

begin
   ctx_adm.recover;
end;

SET_PARAMETER

The SET_PARAMETER procedure sets system-level parameters for index creation.

Syntax

CTX_ADM.SET_PARAMETER(param_name IN VARCHAR2,
                      param_value IN VARCHAR2);

param_name

Specify the name of the parameter to set, which can be one of the following:

• max_index_memory (maximum memory allowed for indexing)

• default_index_memory (default memory allocated for indexing)

• log_directory (directory for CTX_OUPUT files)

• ctx_doc_key_type (default input key type for CTX_DOC procedures)

• file_access_role

• default_datastore (default datastore preference)

• default_filter_file (default filter preference for data stored in files)

• default_filter_text (default text filter preference)

• default_filter_binary (default binary filter preference)

• default_section_html (default html section group preference)

• default_section_xml (default xml section group preference)

• default_section_text (default text section group preference)

• default_lexer (default lexer preference)

• default_wordlist (default wordlist preference)

• default_stoplist (default stoplist preference)

• default_storage (default storage preference)

• default_ctxcat_lexer

• default_ctxcat_stoplist

• default_ctxcat_storage

• default_ctxcat_wordlist

• default_ctxrule_lexer

• default_ctxrule_stoplist

• default_ctxrule_storage

• default_ctxrule_wordlist

  See Also:

  To learn more about the default values for these parameters, see "System Parameters" in Chapter 2.

param_value

Specify the value to assign to the parameter. For max_index_memory and default_index_memory, the value you specify must have the following syntax:

number[K|M|G]

where K stands for kilobytes, M stands for megabytes, and G stands for gigabytes.

For each of the other parameters, specify the name of a preference to use as the default for indexing.

Example

begin
  ctx_adm.set_parameter('default_lexer', 'my_lexer');
end;