LOGFILES and its effect on logging

The LOGFILES configuration parameter, which specifies the number of logical-log files, affects logging.

When you initialize or restart the database server, it creates the number of logical-log files that you specify in the LOGFILES configuration parameter.

You might add logical-log files for the following reasons:

  • To increase the disk space allocated to the logical log
  • To change the size of your logical-log files
  • To enable an open transaction to roll back
  • As part of moving logical-log files to a different dbspace