Using the FORMAT RELEASE parameter to handle GoldenGate Version Differences

Recently I encountered this error while doing a GoldenGate replication from an Oracle 11g R2 source database to an Oracle 10g R2 target database. ERROR OGG-01389 File header failed to parse tokens. File /u01/app/goldengate/dirdat/gv000000, last offset 915, data: 0x Reading the GoldenGate documentation I came across this section which read: “A trail or extract file […]