[Sorry, also posted with the wrong subject title - RE: (un)intelligent agent]

Hi all,

Does anyone have an idea why the query is picking a random local bitmap index whose 
single column is not used in the query to do a conversion on?

Regards,
Adrian

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SELECT   1
FROM small_t bo_
WHERE exists (
        select 1 
        from big_t 
        where bo_.be_id = inv5)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Operation                                 |  Name             Rows | Bytes|  Cost  | 
Pstart| Pstop |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| SELECT STATEMENT                          |                    352 |   17K|     29 | 
      |       |
|  FILTER                                   |                        |      |        | 
      |       |
|   TABLE ACCESS FULL                       |SMALL_T             352 |   17K|     29 | 
      |       |
|   PARTITION RANGE SINGLE                  |                        |      |        | 
  KEY |   KEY |
|    TABLE ACCESS BY LOCAL INDEX ROWID      |BIG_T               250K|    2M|  26561 | 
  KEY |   KEY |
|     BITMAP CONVERSION TO ROWIDS           |                        |      |        | 
      |       |
|      BITMAP INDEX FULL SCAN               |TRANSACTIONT_BIX9       |      |        | 
  KEY |   KEY |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Version 8.1.7.4.1, WinNT

TABLE    TYPE    INDEX_NAME          NUM_ROWS  BLVL DSTNCT_KYS     CF COLUMN_NAME
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BIG_T    BITMAP  TRANSACTIONT_BIX9   24041302     1          2   1953 INV9

BIG_T is partitioned on INV5. There is no index on INV5.

NAME                                 TYPE    VALUE
------------------------------------ ------- ------------------------------
object_cache_optimal_size            integer 102400
optimizer_features_enable            string  8.1.7
optimizer_index_caching              integer 0
optimizer_index_cost_adj             integer 100
optimizer_max_permutations           integer 80000
optimizer_mode                       string  CHOOSE
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