- 10 Nov, 2021
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ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation
ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation
Cause: The memory size was not sufficient to process all the levels of the hierarchy specified by the CONNECT BY clause.
Action: In WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY=AUTO mode, set PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET to a reasonably larger value. Or, in WORKAREA_SIZE_POLICY=MANUAL mode, set SORT_AREA_SIZE to a reasonably larger value.
With this post, I am sharing a very simple tip which I recently used to avoid ORA-30009. Last week one of my colleague faced ORA-30009 and when he googled following two solutions were given in most of sites:
1. Use Pipeline function using loop instead of CONNECT BY.
2. Increase PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET, because this error came due to shortage of PGA memory.
Both of the above solutions will work, but in many cases ORA-30009 does not require any of above steps and can be fixed by breaking SQL to generate two or more sets of data and then using Cartesian product.
Let's do a quick demo:
ankush@thavali> select count(*) from dual connect by level <= 100000000; select count(*) from dual connect by level <= 100000000 * ERROR at line 1: ORA-30009: Not enough memory for CONNECT BY operation
Great! we faced ORA-30009, now let's fix it :
ankush@thavali> select count(*) from 2 (select level from dual connect by level <= 10000), 3 (select level from dual connect by level <= 10000); COUNT(*) ---------- 100000000