Status Column Of v$log on standby database

Question

DB Version : 11.2.0.1
OS Version : AIX 7.1
Status column of v$log is showing values as "CLEARING" & "CLEARING_CURRENT". It doesn't change even after adding the standby log files. Here are values from this view. I am not using real time apply feature and have delay of 120 Minutes.
SQL> select * from v$log;
    GROUP#    THREAD#  SEQUENCE#      BYTES  BLOCKSIZE    MEMBERS ARC STATUS           FIRST_CHANGE# FIRST_TIM NEXT_CHANGE# NEXT_TIME
         1          1       3397  104857600        512          2 YES CLEARING              22886147 03-APR-13     22887606 03-APR-13
         3          1       3396  104857600        512          2 YES CLEARING              22886111 03-APR-13     22886147 03-APR-13
         2          1       3398  104857600        512          2 YES CLEARING_CURRENT      22887606 03-APR-13     22886111 03-APR-13
SQL> select group#,Thread#, sequence#,USER,archived,status,first_change# from v$standby_log;
    GROUP#    THREAD#  SEQUENCE# USER                           ARC STATUS     FIRST_CHANGE#
         4          1       3398 SYS                            YES ACTIVE          22887606
         5          1          0 SYS                            NO  UNASSIGNED             0
         6          0          0 SYS                            YES UNASSIGNED             0
         7          0          0 SYS                            YES UNASSIGNED             0is the status column showing value "CURREN" & "CLEARING_CURRENT" correct, since i have added standby redo logs, i was expecting value to be "INACTIVE" ? reason for expecting this value is because now, standby log files are in use and original log files will be used only in case of switchover or failover. Please comment.
Edited by: user11982706 on Apr 3, 2013 10:31 AM

Answer 1

size are same on both primary and standby. See the results from below query:
Primary
SQL> select GROUP#,THREAD#,bytes/1024/1024,STATUS from v$log;
    GROUP#    THREAD# BYTES/1024/1024 STATUS
         1          1             100 INACTIVE
         2          1             100 INACTIVE
         3          1             100 CURRENTStandby
SQL> select GROUP#,THREAD#,bytes/1024/1024,STATUS from v$log;
    GROUP#    THREAD# BYTES/1024/1024 STATUS
         1          1             100 CLEARING
         3          1             100 CLEARING_CURRENT
         2          1             100 CLEARING
SQL> select GROUP#,THREAD#,bytes/1024/1024,STATUS from v$standby_log;
    GROUP#    THREAD# BYTES/1024/1024 STATUS
         4          1             100 ACTIVE
         5          1             100 UNASSIGNED
         6          0             100 UNASSIGNED
         7          0             100 UNASSIGNEDSo, on standby size of online logs as well as standby logs is exactly same as primary and i have one more standby redo then primary as oracle recommends. Please comment....