ORA-16170: Terminal recovery may have left the database in an inconsistent state

Cause: When terminal recovery is invoked in a standby database without synchronous log shipping, in the rare case of the recovery session being in an unrecoverable state, terminal recovery cannot bring the standby database to a consistent SCN boundary if the primary database continues to have redo thread(s) open.

Action: Continue standby recovery with additional log shipping from primary.

Error Type: ORA

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