Yep, I've had it on an 8.1.6 Solaris instance when I tried to use dbms_stats
on a partitioned table with method_opt => 'for all indexed columns'.  If I
use the default method_opt, all is okay & it was only a problem on
partitioned tables.
HTH
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David Lord

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 17 December 2001 11:05
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Has anybody encountered problems with HISTGRM$ ?
> 
> 
> The DBA of one of my customers tried to run one week ago 
> dbms_stats() to analyse all indexed columns. The result was 
> that all queries ended with ORA-00600. As trace files were 
> indicating queries on HISTGRM$ I immediately directed him to 
> the CBO (he had not instantly linked the cause to the 
> effect). His workaround was to switch to RBO, with of course 
> side-effects. When I came to the site, I reached for my axe 
> and cleaned up everything using questionable means, 
> especially against a production database (junior DBAs, please 
> skip the next paragraph. Socrates was sentenced to death for 
> corrupting the youth and I'd rather avoid the same fate).
>   I first looped on hist_head$ to remove all related rows in 
> histgrm$. Before that any query on DBA_COL_HISTOGRAMS ended 
> in ORA-600. After the loop, to my surprise there still were 
> rows in histgrm$. I deleted them, and still had ORA-600 when 
> querying DBA_COL_HISTOGRAMS. They did not disappeared before 
> I truncated cluster C_OBJ#_INTCOL# (or something like this - 
> the cluster which holds HISTGRM$).
>   There is no obvious sign of data block corruption; it looks 
> more like a logical corruption. I run the same dbms_stats() 
> command on a copy of the database without any problem, and I 
> don't know where the blame should go.
>  Has anybody encountered anything even remotely similar? In 
> that case, it is Oracle 8.1.7.2 on Tru64. 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Stephane Faroult
> Oriole Corporation
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