Re: Mview refresh is much slower in 10g

On 1/17/07, Gints Plivna <gints.plivna_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Refresh method has been changed.
> Previously (<9i) for complete refreshes Oracle did truncate mv and
> insert /*+ append */.
> Now (10g) it does delete, normal insert.
>
> It is discussed for example here
>
> http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:15695764787749

I didn't see in the AskTom article cited where it said that the refresh mechanism changed from truncate/insert append to delete and insert when moving from 9i to 10g.

It does say that the if the MV is part of a refresh group, a complete refresh will be done as delete/insert, rather than as truncate/append.

The last post in that thread (from Pavel Ruzicka) implies that the default refresh mechanism did indeed change from 9i->10g, but that there is a workaround.

I ran a small test to create an MV and do a complete refresh on both 9.2.0.6 and 10.2.0.1 that confirms this behavior.

From the 9i trace:

PARSING IN CURSOR #15 len=56 dep=1 uid=45 oct=85 lid=45 tim=1141749498683672 hv=68464594 ad='5cad9640'
truncate table "JS001292"."MVTEST_MV" purge snapshot log END OF STMT
...
INSERT /*+ APPEND */ INTO
"JS001292"."MVTEST_MV"("OWNER","TABLE_NAME","TABLESPACE_NAME") SELECT "MVTEST"."OWNER","MVTEST"."TABLE_NAME","MVTEST"."TABL ESPACE_NAME" FROM "MVTEST" "MVTEST"
END OF STMT From the 10g trace:

PARSING IN CURSOR #15 len=35 dep=1 uid=56 oct=7 lid=56 tim=1141749792514219 hv=540326182 ad='733ed2d0'
 delete from "JS001292"."MVTEST_MV"
END OF STMT
...
INSERT /*+ BYPASS_RECURSIVE_CHECK */ INTO

"JS001292"."MVTEST_MV"("OWNER","TABLE_NAME","TABLESPACE_NAME") SELECT
"MVTEST"."OWNER","MVTEST"."TABLE_NAME
","MVTEST"."TABLESPACE_NAME" FROM "MVTEST" "MVTEST"

By changing the refresh method to set atomic_refresh = false, the truncate/append
behavior can be restored.

begin

• dbms_mview.refresh('MVTEST_MV',method => 'C');
• use this with 10g to return to truncate/append behavior dbms_mview.refresh('MVTEST_MV',method => 'C', atomic_refresh=>false); end; /

Here's the results of doing so in 10g:

PARSING IN CURSOR #24 len=57 dep=1 uid=56 oct=85 lid=56 tim=1141750173641027 hv=455978900 ad='705be890'
 truncate table "JS001292"."MVTEST_MV" purge snapshot log END OF STMT
...
PARSING IN CURSOR #24 len=208 dep=1 uid=56 oct=2 lid=56 tim=1141750173945788 hv=896677336 ad='6d21e8f0'
INSERT /*+ BYPASS_RECURSIVE_CHECK APPEND */ INTO "JS001292"."MVTEST_MV"("OWNER","TABLE_NAME","TABLESPACE_NAME") SELECT "MVTEST"."OWNER","MVTEST"."TA
BLE_NAME","MVTEST"."TABLESPACE_NAME" FROM "MVTEST" "MVTEST" END OF STMT Nice to know.

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