Re: Can't get INSERT /*+ APPEND */ to indicate direct load in execution plan.....

P->S near the top of the plan output is normal (it's when the final result is send to the QC),
so to recap: in that case (if I'm not missing something again) it seems that, just as you correctly have already noticed, only the append hint was ignored.

So I suppose I'll need to reread the whole document I've previously linked, I mean: it seems that a table with an XMLTYPE column actually *could be* read in parallel ...

Best regards
Dimitre

On 01/11/2011 14:30, Bobak, Mark wrote:
> Thanks Dimitre!
>
> Yes, I do have serial direct load working now, and it appears that the limitation on parallel direct load is due to the XMLTYPE column. I suspected that was the problem, but wasn't seeing a documented restriction in that regard. So, thanks for that!
>
> Guess I'll have to suffer with serial direct load. Come to think of it, I guess I could run multiple, concurrent, serial direct loads. I'll be looking into that next.
>
> -Mark
>
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> Subject: Re: Can't get INSERT /*+ APPEND */ to indicate direct load in execution plan.....
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> Just to add that I'm trying to clarify the missing parallel execution in the insert part ( P->S ).
> Mark could of course try with append without parallel (or with
> noparallel) to see if direct operations take place.
>
>
>
> Dimitre
>
> On 01/11/2011 00:33, Radoulov, Dimitre wrote:
>> On 31/10/2011 20:09, Bobak, Mark wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm trying to get direct load insert working. I'm running 11.2.0.2.0 RAC on Linux x86-64.
>>>
>>> The table is range partitioned, and has one XMLTYPE column with SECUREFILES BINARY XML storage.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I found these:
>>
>> bit.ly/tJlCBT
>>
>> No Parallel DML for XMLType -- DML operations on |XMLType| data are
>> always performed in serial. Parallel DML is not supported for
>> |XMLType|. (Parallel query and DDL are supported for |XMLType|.)
>>
>>
>> I didn't read the whole document,
>> but it seems that one could use parallel DML with the XMLIndexes:
>>
>> bit.ly/sIUkH0
>>
>> You can use a |PARALLEL| clause (with optional degree) when creating
>> or altering an |XMLIndex| index to ensure that index creation and
>> maintenance are carried out in parallel. If the base table is
>> partitioned or enabled for parallelism, then this can improve the
>> performance for both DML operations (|INSERT|, |UPDATE|, |DELETE|) and
>> index DDL operations (|CREATE|, |ALTER|, |REBUILD|).
>>
>>
>> And this one close as "Not a bug":
>>
>> Bug 6453331: INSERT INTO TABLE WITH COLUMN OF XMLTYPE IS NOT USING
>> PARALLEL
>>
>> Status 92 - Closed, Not a Bug
>>
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