Daily Archives: 24.11.2020


Why PGA_AGGREGATE_LIMIT appears to be set, when it is not?

Today I had to explain why the pga_aggregate_target was showing a value, but one does not have to care about it most of the cases. Here the same explanation.

When doing:

SQL> show parameter pga

NAME                                 TYPE                                         VALUE
------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- ----------------------
pga_aggregate_limit                  big integer                                  3000M
pga_aggregate_target                 big integer                                  1G

One would think that pga_aggregate_target is set to 3000M. However when one checks on the spfile, there is nothing defined:

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