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ORA-4036 PGA Memory Exceeds PGA_AGGREGATE_LIMIT when DBMS_STATS.GATHER_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS is Run (Doc ID 2856094.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.8.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

When running DBMS_STATS.GATHER_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS, higher than expected PGA memory is allocated, possibly resulting in errors as follows:

Further troubleshooting reveals that the memory is allocated when the DBMS_STATS.GATHER_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS job runs a certain query against fixed table X$KQLFSQCE.

 

Changes

 

Cause

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