Todd,

I wouldn't give you an answer but I can recommend to trace the call
for both cases and see where it spends the time.

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2006/6/15, tboss@(protected)>:
> The questions is: why the huge time difference when gathering table stats
> against a partition versus a singular table? Anyone else seen this?

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