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by HarrisonFisk 4648 days ago
The easiest way is to avoid running into the problem.

The main reason the central table space grows is due to rollback segments. To avoid collecting a lot of them there are two tips (in addition to file per table you mentioned):

1. Use multi-threaded purge. 2. Avoid very long running transactions (ie. 12+ hours)

Once we have done that, we don't really see this problem any longer.