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It potentially, and likely, creates an awful lot of histograms exactly
BECAUSE the method_opt setting of 'for all columns size 1' is ignored
and replaced with 'for all columns size auto'.
Allen, Brandon wrote:
> It wouldn't create any more histograms than any other method - Oracle creates histograms of size 1 for all columns by default.
>
> That would create an awful lot of histograms if method_opt was
> observed.. Fortunately, it is ignored with
> GATHER AUTO. Here is what the fine manual says:
>
-- Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Aug 10 2005 - 16:44:45 CDT
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