Exception table getting dropped

Question

Hi,
when i dropped a table from the source, the exception table at the target also getting dropped and a table created at the source will also create/override exception table with the new table's structure. So i am wonding if anyone has any idea or
have gone through similar situation.
Here is my replicat setup:
-- Identify the Replicat group:
REPLICAT CEPREP1
-- Use HANDLECOLLISIONS while Source is Active
--HANDLECOLLISIONS
-- State that source and target definitions are identical:
ASSUMETARGETDEFS
-- Specify database login information as needed for the database:
USERID goldengate_owner, PASSWORD *******
-- This starts the macro for exception handler
MACRO #exception_handler
BEGIN
, TARGET goldengate_owner.exceptions
, COLMAP ( rep_name = "CEPREP1"
, table_name = @GETENV ("GGHEADER", "TABLENAME")
, errno = @GETENV ("LASTERR", "DBERRNUM")
, dberrmsg = @GETENV ("LASTERR", "DBERRMSG")
, optype = @GETENV ("LASTERR", "OPTYPE")
, errtype = @GETENV ("LASTERR", "ERRTYPE")
, logrba = @GETENV ("GGHEADER", "LOGRBA")
, logposition = @GETENV ("GGHEADER", "LOGPOSITION")
, committimestamp = @GETENV ("GGHEADER", "COMMITTIMESTAMP"))
, INSERTALLRECORDS
, EXCEPTIONSONLY;
END;
-- This ends the macro for exception handler
-- Specify error handling rules:
REPERROR (DEFAULT, EXCEPTION)
REPERROR (DEFAULT2, ABEND)
REPERROR (-1, EXCEPTION)
REPERROR (-1403, EXCEPTION)
DDL INCLUDE ALL
DDLERROR DEFAULT IGNORE RETRYOP
MAP GGATE_T1.*, TARGET GGATE_T1.*;
MAP GGATE_T1.* #exception_handler()
MAP GGATE_T2.*, TARGET GGATE_T2.*;
MAP GGATE_T2.* #exception_handler()
MAP OPS$ORACLE.*, TARGET OPS$ORACLE.*;
MAP OPS$ORACLE.* #exception_handler()
Edited by: pbhand on Jun 29, 2011 4:22 PM

Answer 1

You have "DDL INCLUDE ALL", which means any "drop table" on the source DB will be replicated to the target DB.
If you don't want to replicate DDL, then just omit this statement altogether (DDL replication is not enabled by default).
If you want to replicate DDL but not for specific objects, then use "DDL INCLUDE {what_you_want}" or "DDL INCLUDE ALL, EXCLUDE {what_you_dont_want}". See the GG Admin guide (ch 14) for how DDL synchronization can be configured[1]...
For example,
<pre>
DDL INCLUDE ALL, EXCLUDE OBJNAME "goldengate_owner.exceptions”
</pre>
or,
<pre>
DDL INCLUDE OBJNAME "goldengate_owner.*", EXCLUDE OBJNAME "goldengate_owner.exceptions”
</pre>
Note: it could be the formatting of the message, but "MAP GGATE_T1., TARGET GGATE_T1.;" doesn't look right. You should always have "schema.tablename", where tablename could be a wildcard... perhaps it was supposed to be => MAP GGATE_T1.*, TARGET GGATE_T1.*;" ?
Cheers,
-Michael
[1] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E18101_01/index.htm