NonStop SQL/MP Reference Manual

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Considerations—Parallel Index Loading
SCRATCHON option. To request an overflow pool but exclude specific volumes,
use the NOSCRATCHON option.
If ServerWare SMF is installed on the node you specify, scratchvol can be a
virtual or physical volume. If you specify a virtual volume, FastSort ignores any
volumes specified in SCRATCHON or NOSCRATCHON and uses only the virtual
volume for both initial and overflow scratch files.
SCRATCHON ( scratchvol [, scratchvol ] ...)
is valid only if INDEX is specified. SCRATCHON specifies one or more volumes to
be used as overflow scratch volumes for the sort process—in case one or more
initial volumes become full. The sort processes also use this list if you do not
specify an initial set of scratch volumes (using the SCRATCH option). The
SCRATCHON option can be used as a DEFAULT specification or for a specific
partition.
You can specify up to 32 volumes, limited by the line length (a maximum of 132
characters). The scratchvol specification can include wild-card characters (*
and ?).
You cannot specify both NOSCRATCHON and SCRATCHON. If you do not
specify either SCRATCHON or NOSCRATCHON, the sort processes consider using
any available volume except $SYSTEM and TM/MP audit trail volumes. If
ServerWare SMF is installed on your node, you can specify only physical volumes
for SCRATCHON.
SWAP ( swapvol [, swapvol ] ... )
is valid only if INDEX or BASETABLE is specified, and specifies the name of the
volume (including a node, if desired) on which to place the extended segment swap
file. For example:
$MYVOL
\NWREG.$SALES1
You can specify multiple swap volume names only for DEFAULT swap volumes.
Considerations—Parallel Index Loading
When the total number of table and index partitions approaches 750, parallel index
loading might terminate with one of the following:
SQL error 1910, sort start error 10
SQL error 1928, record generator error 10.
If one of these errors occurs, increase the PFS space of the SQLCAT object and
license the new copy before reissuing your request.
To increase PFS size, use the BINDER product or specify the PFS run-time option.
You should increase the PFS size only when necessary. When you increase the size,
save an unmodified copy of SQLCAT.