Trail file management
In a busy database environment, redo data generation can increase significantly, particularly with the required supplemental logging enabled on your source tables. As we know, an Oracle database will "recycle" its redo logs in a round-robin fashion, switching to the next log when full. GoldenGate scans the redo logs and writes its own Trail files to the dirdat subdirectory. Although the Trail file data is typically a quarter the size of its equivalent redo data, if left unmanaged, the volume of files in dirdat can be significant. In the worst case, filling the filesystem to 100% utilized. Obviously this is not ideal, so GoldenGate has provided an automated mechanism for purging Trail files from this area.
This is achieved by configuring the PURGEOLDEXTRACTS parameter in the GoldenGate Manager parameter file as follows:
-- GoldenGate Manager parameter file PORT 7809 PURGEOLDEXTRACTS ./dirdat/sa*, USECHECKPOINTS, MINKEEPHOURS 1
The USECHECKPOINTS option preserves the Trail...
