The doc is correct on the constraint not null and scan limited index full?

Gave birth to the large [url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9313643] another thread:
Jonathan Lewis wrote:
>
I wasn't expecting to see because the doc said about scan limited index full "...". and at least one column in the index key has the NOT NULL constraint,"which would be foolish to say if the rowid was what filled that. There are currently only 2 factory codes and code 1 company (not nulls - Oracle does know that?), so I was kind of expected Oracle to reorder the predicates with an index skip scan. Take a fresh look on the doc, I wonder if I should not specify the company code in the query and maybe spend employee and job_number in the index. I hope it's obvious that this index has been added for other queries. This request could be taken out a change in the requirements of anyway, but I don't know when.
If you wear it as a separate thread, I'll take a look.
Can you give a reference to the manual - the comment you quoted may not be correct.
Just below where Hemant pointed to in the other thread, http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e16508/indexiot.htm#sthref314

(Somehow I have the feeling that we had this conversation before, perhaps in a forum that no longer exists. "(Or was it all just a dream)."

Edit: Also seen in
http://download.Oracle.com/docs/CD/B28359_01/server.111/b28274/optimops.htm#i52044
http://download.Oracle.com/docs/CD/B14117_01/server.101/b10752/optimops.htm#51111
http://download.Oracle.com/docs/CD/F49540_01/doc/server.815/a67781/c20b_ops.htm#11004
http://download.Oracle.com/docs/CD/B19306_01/server.102/b14211/optimops.htm#i52044

and everything on the net.

Edited by: jgarry 26 January 2011 17:41
2nd edition: link fix that edit may 1 have ransacked.

Edited by: jgarry January 27, 2011 10:40

Joel,

I just had this 'already seen' (new) sense to speak of it.

Mentioning the reference 11.1 gave you:


    + "Index full scans are an alternative to a full table scan when the index contains all the columns needed for the query, and at least in the index key column has the constraint NOT NULL. A full scan can access the data of the index itself, without access to the table ' + '.

This so obviously must be bad that I couldn't decide if I was proven wrong or was amazed to find that I couldn't he show the falsity. (Just because something is obvious, it does not mean it is true – Terry Pratchett.)

However, here is the obvious counter-example - that I came across 8.1.7.4 because it's the oldest version of Oracle that I have now:

create table t1
as
select
     rownum               id1,
     rownum               id2,
     rownum               id3,
     lpad(rownum,10,'0')     small_vc,
     rpad('x',100)          padding
from
     all_objects
where
     rownum <= 10000
;

create index t1_i1 on t1(id1, id2, id3);

begin
     dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(
          ownname           => user,
          tabname           =>'T1',
          cascade           => true

     );
end;
/

set autotrace traceonly explain

select
     /*+ index_ffs(t1) */
     id1, id3
from
     t1
where
     id2 = 99
;

No 'NOT NULL columns". But any line I will have a (non-null) value for id2, then it should be in the index - then Oracle should be able to do a full scan and get the right answer. Here is the map (I have no need of Council - but your configuration may be different):

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
   0      SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=ALL_ROWS (Cost=4 Card=1 Bytes=12)
   1    0   INDEX (FAST FULL SCAN) OF 'T1_I1' (NON-UNIQUE) (Cost=4 Card=1 Bytes=12)

If you change the predicate to: "id2 is zero", then the only legal path is an analysis.

Concerning
Jonathan Lewis
http://jonathanlewis.WordPress.com
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.UK

+ "I believe in the evidence. I believe in observation, measurement and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wildest and most ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid, the evidence should be. » +
Isaac Asimov

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