Thanks for the great info. I would like to make a sound test case for it. Dion Cho 2008/4/25, Riku Räsänen <riku.rasanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Found interesting change, included in 10.2.0.4. > > From Note:5483301.8 > > Quote: > > "If a column has a frequency histogram and a query uses an equality > predicate over the column looking for a value that does not exists > in the histogram then the CBO was estimating a cardinality of 1. > This could favor Nested Loops too much. > > The fix introduces a notable change in behavior: instead of estimating > a cardinality of 1 then with this fix CBO estimates a cardinality of > (0.5 * the lowest cardinality found in the histogram). This can result > in plan changes." > > > > This issue has bitten me several times, mostly because of unnecessary > histograms. Remains to be seen, if this really affects anything. > > > -- > Riku Räsänen > Kantamestarit Oy > www.kantamestarit.fi > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >