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  rem $Header: utlxplan.sql 29-oct-2001.20:28:58 mzait Exp $ xplainpl.sql 
  
  rem 
  
  Rem Copyright (c) 1988, 2001, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.  
  
  Rem NAME
  
  REM    UTLXPLAN.SQL
  
  Rem  FUNCTION
  
  Rem  NOTES
  
  Rem  MODIFIED
  
  Rem     mzait      10/26/01  - add keys and filter predicates to the plan table
  
  Rem     ddas       05/05/00  - increase length of options column
  
  Rem     ddas       04/17/00  - add CPU, I/O cost, temp_space columns
  
  Rem     mzait      02/19/98 -  add distribution method column
  
  Rem     ddas       05/17/96 -  change search_columns to number
  
  Rem     achaudhr   07/23/95 -  PTI: Add columns partition_{start, stop, id}
  
  Rem     glumpkin   08/25/94 -  new optimizer fields
  
  Rem     jcohen     11/05/93 -  merge changes from branch 1.1.710.1 - 9/24
  
  Rem     jcohen     09/24/93 - #163783 add optimizer column
  
  Rem     glumpkin   10/25/92 -  Renamed from XPLAINPL.SQL 
  
  Rem     jcohen     05/22/92 - #79645 - set node width to 128 (M_XDBI in gendef)
  
  Rem     rlim       04/29/91 -         change char to varchar2 
  
  Rem   Peeler     10/19/88 - Creation
  
  Rem
  
  Rem This is the format for the table that is used by the EXPLAIN PLAN
  
  Rem statement.  The explain statement requires the presence of this 
  
  Rem table in order to store the descriptions of the row sources.
  
  
  
  create table PLAN_TABLE (
  
  	statement_id 	varchar2(30),
  
  	timestamp    	date,
  
  	remarks      	varchar2(80),
  
  	operation    	varchar2(30),
  
  	options       	varchar2(255),
  
  	object_node  	varchar2(128),
  
  	object_owner 	varchar2(30),
  
  	object_name  	varchar2(30),
  
  	object_instance numeric,
  
  	object_type     varchar2(30),
  
  	optimizer       varchar2(255),
  
  	search_columns  number,
  
  	id		numeric,
  
  	parent_id	numeric,
  
  	position	numeric,
  
  	cost		numeric,
  
  	cardinality	numeric,
  
  	bytes		numeric,
  
  	other_tag       varchar2(255),
  
  	partition_start varchar2(255),
  
          partition_stop  varchar2(255),
  
          partition_id    numeric,
  
  	other		long,
  
  	distribution    varchar2(30),
  
  	cpu_cost	numeric,
  
  	io_cost		numeric,
  
  	temp_space	numeric,
  
          access_predicates varchar2(4000),
  
          filter_predicates varchar2(4000));
  
  