Alert: not every datablock change version is saved in the flashback log in Oracle
Critical to performance is that not every change is copied to the flashback buffer— only a subset of changes. If all changes to all blocks were copied to the buffer, then the overhead in terms of memory usage and the amount of extra disk I/O required to flush the buffer to disk would be crippling for performance. Internal algorithms limit which versions of which blocks are placed in the flashback buffer, in order to restrict its size and the frequency with which it will fill and be written to disk.
