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ALTER TABLE MOVE ONLINE Slow After Installing DB RU 19.19 With Wait Event "Online DDL delay" (Doc ID 2961835.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.3.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ALTER TABLE .. MOVE performing slow after upgrading from 19.17 to DB RU 19.19.


In event 10046 trace, we see that in 19.19, the extra time is being spent on wait event "online DDL delay" and this wait event isn't seen in 19.17.

We see in 19.19:

 Event waited on                             Times   Max. Wait  Total Waited
 ----------------------------------------   Waited  ----------  ------------
 PGA memory operation                            3        0.00          0.00
 direct path write                               2        0.00          0.00
 online DDL delay                                3        1.99          5.99  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
 reliable message                               10        0.00          0.00
 enq: RO - fast object reuse                     5        0.00          0.01
 db file sequential read                         5        0.00          0.00
 enq: CR - block range reuse ckpt                5        0.00          0.01
 log file sync                                   1        0.00          0.00
 SQL*Net message to client                       1        0.00          0.00
 SQL*Net message from client                     1        0.00          0.00
*****************************************************

Versus 19.17:

 Event waited on                             Times   Max. Wait  Total Waited
 ----------------------------------------   Waited  ----------  ------------
 PGA memory operation                            3        0.00          0.00
 direct path write                               2        0.00          0.00
 reliable message                               10        0.00          0.00
 enq: RO - fast object reuse                     5        0.00          0.00
 db file sequential read                         5        0.00          0.00
 enq: CR - block range reuse ckpt                5        0.00          0.00
 log file sync                                   1        0.00          0.00
 SQL*Net message to client                       1        0.00          0.00
 SQL*Net message from client                     1        0.00          0.00
******************************************************

Changes

 Upgrade from 19.17 to 19.19

Cause

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