Folks, If there are statements where FTS on large tables is unavoidable due to the logic in the statements, is there a downside of using PQ to scan those tables? Jonathan has mentioned one caution on page 30 of his book but are there any other issues that one must be aware of ? The RDBMS version are 9.2.0.6 and 10.2.0.2. Thanks Amir -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l