I was managing an ORACLE RAC database configured with Oracle Data Guard when I discovered the archive log was not being deleted after the retention policy of 2 days in our backup configuration. Therefore, I started the investigation by collecting some information from the alert log. And the first initiative I took was to verify if the database had been deleting old archives when there was a space pressure in the recovery area as below: It is a cheerful and ordinary Oracle database approach to automatically deleting unneeded files. The…