> Nope. I've done this, but of course my notes are long gone. It was > an event that once set, would allow block corruptions to take place > during recovery by not applying corrupted redolog entries. This then > allowed the rest of the recovery to proceed to completion. Do you mean _corrupt_blocks_on_stuck_recovery ? It's gone starting from 9i... Tanel. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l