RE: HASH GROUP BY

  • From: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:07:31 -0500

I stand corrected.  These are some serious bugs!


Pat



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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of David Aldridge
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:38 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: HASH GROUP BY

There have also been a few genuine bugs as well -- I'm using it in 10.2.0.2 and 
haven't seen any issues though.

Searching the metalink bug database for _gby_hash_aggregation_enabled=false 
generally shows them.

----- Original Message ----
From: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
"Rob.Dempsey@xxxxxxxxxx" <Rob.Dempsey@xxxxxxxxxx>; "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
<oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:20:58 PM
Subject: RE: HASH GROUP BY

Now I understand what you mean by buggy.  It no longer sorts the rows.  If you 
have code that relies on a group by being in sorted order, then the code will 
no longer work.  If you have had to disable this in the past to get correct 
results, then you will need to continue disabling it indefinitely.  The only 
way to fix it and reenable the hashing group by is to change the code.

select column_a, column_b, count(column_c)
from table_abc
group by column_a, column_b
order by column_a, column_b

You need to add the order by above to your code where you just had the "group 
by" alone before.


Pat



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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Elliott, Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:44 PM
To: Rob.Dempsey@xxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: HASH GROUP BY

This is enabled by default in version 9.2.0.5 and up.  Are you explicitly 
disabling it in your environment?


Pat



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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Rob Dempsey
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:08 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: HASH GROUP BY

Hi

Our current Oracle version -> 10.2.0.1

Does anyone know what version this feature has been fixed in.  I would like to 
enable the feature, but it seems to have been very buggy (especially with wrong 
results)

Rob

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