Automatic List Partitioning in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)
Automatic list partitioning was introduced in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) to solve the problem of how to handle new distinct values of the list partitioning key.
Oracle 12cR2中的自动列表分区是为了解决列表分区键中新的不同值。
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The Problem
Your company currently deals with customers from USA, UK and Ireland and you want to partition your orders table based on the country. You achieve this as follows.
公司正在处理来自 USA, UK 和Ireland 的客户,你希望根据国家来分区你的订单表。采用如下方式实现:
DROP TABLE orders PURGE; CREATE TABLE orders ( id NUMBER, country_code VARCHAR2(5), customer_id NUMBER, order_date DATE, order_total NUMBER(8,2), CONSTRAINT orders_pk PRIMARY KEY (id) ) PARTITION BY LIST (country_code) ( PARTITION part_usa VALUES ('USA'), PARTITION part_uk_and_ireland VALUES ('GBR', 'IRL') ); INSERT INTO orders VALUES (1, 'USA', 10, SYSDATE, 10200.93); INSERT INTO orders VALUES (2, 'USA', 11, SYSDATE, 948.22); INSERT INTO orders VALUES (3, 'GBR', 22, SYSDATE, 300.83); INSERT INTO orders VALUES (4, 'IRL', 43, SYSDATE, 978.43); COMMIT;
Your sales team accept an order from a new customer that happens to be based in a different country. The problem is nobody told the DBAs.
销售部门接受了一个来自不同国家新客户的一个订单,该问题无人告知DBA。
INSERT INTO orders VALUES (5, 'BGR', 96, SYSDATE, 2178.43); * ERROR at line 1: ORA-14400: inserted partition key does not map to any partition SQL>
Automatic List Partitioning
Automatic list partitioning creates a partition for any new distinct value of the list partitioning key. We can enable automatic list partitioning on the existing table using the ALTER TABLE
command.
自动列表分区会创建一个新的分区为新的分区键值。我们可以是用ALTER TABLE命令开启自动列表分区在一个已经存在的表上,如下:
ALTER TABLE orders SET PARTITIONING AUTOMATIC;
Alternatively we could recreate the table using the AUTOMATIC
keyword.
另外我们也可以使用AUTOMATIC关键字重建表,如下:
DROP TABLE orders PURGE;
CREATE TABLE orders
(
id NUMBER,
country_code VARCHAR2(5),
customer_id NUMBER,
order_date DATE,
order_total NUMBER(8,2),
CONSTRAINT orders_pk PRIMARY KEY (id)
)
PARTITION BY LIST (country_code) AUTOMATIC
(
PARTITION part_usa VALUES ('USA'),
PARTITION part_uk_and_ireland VALUES ('GBR', 'IRL')
);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES (1, 'USA', 10, SYSDATE, 10200.93);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES (2, 'USA', 11, SYSDATE, 948.22);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES (3, 'GBR', 22, SYSDATE, 300.83);
INSERT INTO orders VALUES (4, 'IRL', 43, SYSDATE, 978.43);
COMMIT;
Once automatic list partitioning is enabled we can successfully insert the new order.
一旦自动列表分区开启,我们就可以成功插入新订单。
INSERT INTO orders VALUES (5, 'BGR', 96, SYSDATE, 2178.43); 1 row created. SQL>
We can see a new partition has been created to hold the new order by querying the {CDB|DBA|ALL|USER}_TAB_PARTITIONS
view.
可以通过查询视图{CDB|DBA|ALL|USER}_TAB_PARTITIONS来查看自动新建的分区,如下:
EXEC DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats(USER, 'orders', cascade => TRUE);
SET LINESIZE 100
COLUMN table_name FORMAT A30
COLUMN partition_name FORMAT A30
COLUMN high_value FORMAT A15
SELECT table_name,
partition_name,
high_value,
num_rows
FROM user_tab_partitions
ORDER BY 1, 2;
TABLE_NAME PARTITION_NAME HIGH_VALUE NUM_ROWS
------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------- ----------
ORDERS PART_UK_AND_IRELAND 'GBR', 'IRL' 2
ORDERS PART_USA 'USA' 2
ORDERS SYS_P549 'BGR' 1
SQL>
We can see automatic list partitioning is enabled by querying the AUTOLIST
column in the {CDB|DBA|ALL|USER}_PART_TABLES
view.
可以通过查询{CDB|DBA|ALL|USER}_PART_TABLES视图的 AUTOLIST
列来确定是否开启了自动列表分区。
COLUMN table_name FORMAT A30 COLUMN autolist FORMAT A8 SELECT table_name, autolist FROM user_part_tables; TABLE_NAME AUTOLIST ------------------------------ -------- ORDERS YES SQL>