Here's my explain plan:
SELECT STATEMENT, GOAL = ALL_ROWS 244492 4525870 235345240
SORT ORDER BY 244492 4525870 235345240
**PARTITION RANGE ALL** 207633 4525870 235345240
INDEX FAST FULL SCAN MCT MCT_PLANNED_CT_PK 207633 4525870 235345240
Just wondering if this is the best optimized plan for querying huge partitioned tables.
Using Oracle10g
PARTITION RANGE ALL
just means that the predicates could not be used to perform any partition pruning. More info. Or, that the alternative (scanning the table blocks instead of using a fast full scan on the index) was estimated to be more expensive overall.
If you can change the predicate to limit the affected rows to a small subset of the partitions, the database will be able to skip whole partitions when querying the table.