Re: Temporary space needed to create a constraint

  • From: "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oratune@xxxxxxxxx>, <mark.powell2@xxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:35:29 +0100

But if there is a pre-existing index that contains all the data needed to 
enforce the constraint Oracle shouldn't need to do any sorting, it need 
only do a full scan of the index to check that there are no duplicates.

Regards

Jonathan Lewis
http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/all_postings

Author: Oracle Core (Apress 2011)
http://www.apress.com/9781430239543

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Fitzjarrell" <oratune@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mark.powell2@xxxxxx>; "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Temporary space needed to create a constraint


Which is exactly what he's done -- the constraint creation runs out of temp 
space even though no index is being created. The sort segment outgrows the 
available temp space and then errors out. I can guess that Oracle is 
ordering the keys to verify no duplicates exist before creating and 
enforcing the primary key, but I can't prove that on my small playground 
database.

David Fitzjarrell

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