Re: Question related to 'direct path read"

From: Dominic Brooks <dombrooks_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 05:59:16 +0000
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On 29 Nov 2018, at 21:56, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com<mailto:Amir.Hameed_at_xerox.com>> wrote:

Hi,

I have a sub-query shown below:

SELECT

  TO_CHAR(INVOICE_ID) INVOICE_ID,
  TO_CHAR(POSTING_GROUP) POSTING_GROUP,
  TO_CHAR(REQUEST_ID) REQUEST_ID,
  TO_CHAR(CONTRACT_ID) CONTRACT_ID,
  CONTRACT_VERSION,
  CONTRACT_SEQUENCE,

  COVERAGE_START_DT COVG_PERIOD_ST_DT,
  COVERAGE_END_DT
  COVG_PERIOD_END_DT,
  TO_CHAR(CREDIT_INVOICE_ID) CREDIT_INVOICE_ID,   RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY INVOICE_ID ORDER BY INVOICE_DETAIL_ID) RNK FROM
  METRIX.INVOICE_DETAIL ID
WHERE POSTING_GROUP = NVL(:B1 , POSTING_GROUP) AND   INVOICE_DETAIL_ID IS NOT NULL
;

The METRIX.INVOICE_DETAIL is a 38 million rows table. Column POSTING_GROUP is indexed but contains only 98 distinct values; so, it is not a good index. When this subquery runs, it does a FTS of the INVOICE_DETAIL table. The trace file shows that FTS was done using un-buffered I/O (DIRECT PATH READ waits). However, when I add the PARALLEL hint to the statement with a DOP of 2 or 4, the PQ processes scan the table using buffered I/O (DB FILE SCATTERD READ waits). I am trying to understand why multiple PQ processes are not doing un-buffered reads whereas the single process is.

Thanks,
Amir

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