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Job Using Parallelism Hangs After Upgrade To 19c (Doc ID 2861895.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.11.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ETL jobs which load data into reporting database hang after upgrade from 12.2 to 19.11 .

The ETL job generates dynamic sql (Merge statement for each table to copy data) from the data dictionary of the source (thru a DB link). The job can never finishes and following top waits, PX Deq: Parse Reply, PX Deq: Execute Msg, cursor: pin S wait on X and library cache.

The combination of below worked fine.

-- alter session force parallel query;
-- putting /*+ parallel */ hint in select statements which generate the dynamic sql (MERGE stmts)

But with PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY is set to AUTO not getting parallelism.

Changes

 

Cause

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