Interesting test Chris, thanks for setting it up and providing an explanation. CBO is making some interesting choices, is it not? -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On 6/9/05, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jared > > Some observations show that the cost is not proportional with the number > of partitions. > > Below you find a simple test. Of course any comment is welcome!!! > > HTH > > Chris > > 1) The setup. > > CREATE TABLE t1 (id NUMBER, v1 CHAR(1000)); > > CREATE TABLE t2 (id NUMBER, v1 CHAR(1000)); > > INSERT INTO t1 SELECT rownum, object_name FROM all_objects WHERE rownum > <= 10; > > COMMIT; > > INSERT INTO t2 SELECT rownum, object_name FROM all_objects WHERE rownum > <= 10000; > ... > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l