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ALTER PROJECTION

This command manually forces a mergeout or moveout operation.

See Understanding the Automatic Tuple Mover in the Database Administrator's Guide (Advanced) for an explanation of how to use this command.

Syntax

ALTER PROJECTION projection

{ MOVEOUT | MERGEOUT [ FROM start_epoch TO end_epoch ] }

Semantics

projection

specifies the name of a projection.

MOVEOUT

manually forces a moveout operation

MERGEOUT

combines two or more ROS containers into a single container.

start_epoch

end_epoch

specifies the epochs to merge into a single ROS container. Epoch numbering begins at zero (0) at database creation time and is incremented each time an advance epoch occurs, either automatically or manually using SELECT ADVANCE_EPOCH. Epoch numbering does not restart and continues to advance throughout the life of the database. Epoch numbers, therefore, can become quite large.

Notes