MATERIALIZED VIEW FAST REFRESH IS VERY SLOW, "AS OF SNAPSHOT" CURSORS NOT BEING SHARED

Last updated on AUGUST 08, 2013

Applies to:

Symptoms

On a production database version 11.1.0.7,  the fast refresh of a nested materialized view takes a lot of time comparing to the select statement used for the creation of the materialized view.

The refresh of the mview takes approximately 16 min. The select statement itself finishes in about 8 seconds.
It can be seen that most of the time is spent with the parse of update sys.sumpartlog$ statement.


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update sys.sumpartlog$ s set s.timestamp = :1, s.scn = :2
where
rowid in (select rowid from sumpartlog$ AS OF SNAPSHOT(:3) s1 where
s1.bo# = :4 and s1.timestamp >= to_date('4000-01-01:00:00:00',
'YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS'))


call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows
------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
Parse 1 966.75 955.72 0 0 7648 0
Execute 1 0.01 0.00 0 1 0 0
Fetch 0 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0
------- ------ -------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
total 2 966.76 955.72 0 1 7648 0

Misses in library cache during parse: 1
Misses in library cache during execute: 1
Optimizer mode: ALL_ROWS
Parsing user id: SYS (recursive depth: 1)

Rows Row Source Operation
------- ---------------------------------------------------
0 UPDATE SUMPARTLOG$ (cr=6 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us)
0 NESTED LOOPS (cr=6 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=1 size=68 card=1)
0 TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID SUMPARTLOG$ (cr=6 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=0 size=34 card=1)
0 INDEX RANGE SCAN I_SUMPARTLOG$ (cr=1 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=0 size=0 card=1)(object id 612)
0 TABLE ACCESS BY USER ROWID SUMPARTLOG$ (cr=0 pr=0 pw=0 time=0 us cost=1 size=34 card=1)

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The same issue can be encountered on a 10204 environment.

Cause