Re: Index freelists

  • From: Natural Join B.V. <lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:40:50 MET

I certainly agree.

especially the (new in 10g) support for globally hash-partitioned indexes is 
great for this reason; if you are only concerned about index contention, leave 
the table unpartitioned and only hash partition your index(es)...

Lex.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> We both reached the conclusion the best approach to contention problems in
> situations like these (header block contention) is to hash partition as much
> as we can (and dare) and forget about fine-tuning segment-headers, freelists
> and all that jazz.  Much better bang-for-buck of our time.  Same applies to
> RAC and clustered situations where there may be block (or row) contention.
> 
> Just hash partition the table + indexes over 50 or so splits and be done
> with it.  99 times out of 100 it's all you need to do, the remaining 1%
> you ask a guru to sort it out.  Would you
agree?

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