Oracle Solution for Error ora-38733

ORA-38733: Physical size string less than needed string

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What triggered the Error:

A flashback database log file shrank in size. This was likely to have been caused by operator or operating system error.

What should we do to fix it:

If you are doing a FLASHBACK DATABASE, then the flashback cannot be performed because of the corrupted log. A restore and an incomplete recovery must be performed instead.