Oracle 在线扩展分区

    在对分区表操作是，当一个分区已经有了最大的分区，如何再次扩展分区呢？简单的方式是先删除最大分区，然后添加需要的分区，再次建立最大分区，如果对于7*24小时的系统，可能不行。哪有什么办法呢？下面来做个试验：

SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.1.0      Production
TNS for 64-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

SQL> drop table test purge;

SQL> create table test
   (
     id number,
     record_date date
   )partition by range(record_date)
   (
     partition p_2013 values less than(to_date('2013-01-01','yyyy-MM-dd')),
     partition p_2014 values less than(to_date('2014-01-01','yyyy-MM-dd')),
     partition p_max values less than (maxvalue)
   );

SQL> insert into test values(1,to_date('2012-10-01','yyyy-MM-dd'));
SQL> insert into test values(2,to_date('2013-10-01','yyyy-MM-dd'));
SQL> insert into test values(3,to_date('2014-10-01','yyyy-MM-dd'));
SQL> commit;
SQL> select partition_name from user_tab_partitions
     where table_name = 'TEST'
     order by partition_position;
PARTITION_NAME
------------------------------
P_2013
P_2014
P_MAX

SQL> select * from test partition(p_2013);
        ID RECORD_DATE
---------- --------------
         1 01-10月-12

SQL> select * from test partition(p_2014);
        ID RECORD_DATE
---------- --------------
         2 01-10月-13

SQL> select * from test partition(p_max);
        ID RECORD_DATE
---------- --------------
         3 01-10月-14

SQL> alter table test add partition p_2015 values
           less than(to_date('2015-10-01','yyyy-MM-dd'));
alter table test add partition p_2015 values
                               *
第 1 行出现错误:
ORA-14074: 分区界限必须调整为高于最后一个分区界限

SQL> alter table test split partition p_max at (to_date('2015-01-01','yyyy-MM-dd'))
      into (partition p_2015, partition p_max)  update global indexes;

SQL> select partition_name from user_tab_partitions
     where table_name = 'TEST'
     order by partition_position;
PARTITION_NAME
------------------------------
P_2013
P_2014
P_2015
P_MAX

SQL> insert into test values(4,to_date('2015-10-01','yyyy-MM-dd'));
SQL> commit;
SQL> select * from test partition(p_2015);
        ID RECORD_DATE
---------- --------------
         3 01-10月-14
         
SQL> select * from test partition(p_max);
        ID RECORD_DATE
---------- --------------
         4 01-10月-15