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storageArea

A storage area is a physical structure, such as a data file, that Oracle SES uses to store data and metadata. The structure must already exist; the storageArea object just registers the structure with Oracle SES.

See Also:

• "Partitioning for Parallel Query"

Object Type

Creatable

Object Key

name

Object Key Command Syntax

--NAME=object_name

-n object_name

State Properties

None

Supported Operations

create
createAll
delete
deleteAll
deleteList
export
exportAll
exportList
getAllObjectKeys
update
updateAll

Administration GUI Page

None

XML Description

A <search:storageAreas> element describes a storage area:

<search:storageAreas>
   <search:storageArea>
      <search:name>
      <search:description>
      <search:usage>

Element Contents: 

<search:storageAreas>

Contains one or more <search:storageArea> elements, each defining a storage area for use by Oracle SES.

<search:storageArea>

Describes a storage area. It contains these elements:

<search:name>
<search:description>
<search:usage>
<search:locations>

<search:name>

Name of an existing storage area. (Required)

Enter the name of an existing ASSM tablespace and specify PARTITION for the usage type. An ASSM (Automatic Segment Space Management) tablespace is created with the SQL CREATE TABLESPACE clause EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO.

The default tablespaces for Oracle SES are SEARCH_DATA, SEARCH_INDEX, and SEARCH_TEMP.

<search:description>

Description of the storage area. (Required)

<search:usage>

A usage type. You can create only the PARTITION storage type. (Required)

• PARTITION: Stores the document index.

• CRAWLER: Stores tokens for the index.

• SYSTEM: Stores index data.

Example

This XML document describes the default SEARCH_DATA tablespace:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<search:config productVersion="11.2.1.0.0" xmlns:search="http://xmlns.oracle.com/search">
   <search:storageAreas>
     <search:storageArea>
         <search:name>SEARCH_DATA</search:name>
         <search:description>Default storage area</search:description>
         <search:usage>PARTITION</search:usage>
      </search:storageArea>
   </search:storageAreas>
</search:config>