RMAN v$archived_log NULL

Question: I am running RMAN and I have entries in the v$archived_log table where the column name is NULL?

I tried these RMAN commands but I still have NULL values in the name column of v$archived_log:

RMAN> CROSSCHECK BACKUP DEVICE TYPE DISK;
RMAN> CROSSCHECK ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> DELETE NOPROMPT EXPIRED ARCHIVELOG ALL;
RMAN> DELETE NOPROMPT EXPIRED BACKUP;
RMAN> DELETE NOPROMPT OBSOLETE;

Why does v$archived_log insist upon having a NULL column value for the name column?

Answer:  You can see NULL values in v$archived_log with this query:

select
    thread#,
    sequence#,
    applied,
    registrar
from
    v$archived_log;

See this discussion for details on NULL values in v$archived_log in RMAN.  

In some cases there the v$archived_log name column is NULL, you may see the RMAN-03002 followed by a ORA-06502 (number precision too large) and if you execute an RMAN restore, the underlying RMAN PL/SQL package (X$DBMS_RCVMAN) gets the ORA-06502 error in the alert log.  

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