RE: Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-31 Thread Stephen Lee
Good old corporate politics here. So some of this is just fishing to see to if anyone knows of anything that has changed from 8.1.7.4 to 9.2.0.3 with online index creation ... OR ... has there been a change made in the application (unbeknownst to us) that will crash into an online index creation.

RE: Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I see, you can't find ot the waits because you don't want to ruin the performance again on purpose. That makes sense! Online index rebuild has been problematic WRT the journal application phase (among other problems such as abandoned journal segments after cancel or failure) since it was introduc

RE: Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-30 Thread Stephen Lee
I appreciate the response. The questions here are not "Are there waits?" Most obviously, there are. The questions flying around here are: We have been doing this with no problems when the database was 8.1.7.4. Now we try when the database is 9.2.0.3, and we don't just see waits, we see the thin

Re: Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
What are the wait events of the slowed sessions? What is the correspondence with v$session_longops phases for the rebuild? Really, the answer to 75% of the questions in this group is "look at v$session_wait." -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 29 May 2003, Stephen Lee

Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-30 Thread Stephen Lee
On 9.2.0.3, I have experienced a problem with online index creation. When creating indexes on what I suppose most would consider to be large tables (with nasty, sharp, pointy teeth and a bad disposition), when Oracle is doing its initial data gathering, sorting, slicing, and dicing in preparation