Re: Invisible indexes and table expansion

From: Dominic Brooks <dombrooks_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:09:03 +0000
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Probably just covered by bug 16544878.

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> On 10 Apr 2018, at 10:50, Dominic Brooks <dombrooks_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just working through a problem, gathering evidence and trying to reproduce. And it’s difficult for me to get an optimiser trace file in the environment.
>
> In an 11.2.0.4 environment, I’ve got a whole bunch of queries now using table expansion - VW_TE_2.
>
> Recent change was to add three local indexes, each with a subset of partitions as usable - something which table expansion was designed to help with.
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> But they are invisible indexes.
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> So my theory is the invisibility is limited - ie they are visible enough to cause table expansion - but then can’t be used.
>
> Anyone looked into something similar?
>
> Cheers
> Dominic
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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