ALTER TABLE MOVE PARTITION ONLINE Does Not Use PARALLEL_DEGREE_LIMIT Value as Parallel Degree

(Doc ID 2175916.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 and later
Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ALTER TABLE MOVE PARTITION ONLINE does not follow parallel_degree_limit as default parallel degree.

This problem can be reproduced with the following testcase:

 --> 32767 is used as parallel degree while parallel_degree_limit=2 is set

Cause

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