There are cases where RCTs cannot be used, and there are certain utilities that cannot operate on an RCT. The restrictions are as follows:
- RCT cannot be used in pureScale environment
- A partitioned table cannot be an RCT
- Declared and created temporary tables cannot be RCTs
- Automatic summary tables cannot be RCTs
- The LOAD command is not supported
- The REORG command is not supported
- Multidimensional clustering and clustering indexes are not compatible with RCTs
- Compression is not supported
- Reverse scans are not supported on RCTs
- The IMPORT command's REPLACE parameter is not supported
- The WITH EMPTY TABLE clause is not supported on the ALTER TABLE ... ACTIVATE NOT LOGGED INITIALLY