“SELECT MEDIA FROM V$BACKUP_PIECE_DETAILS” Takes Long Time and Uses Huge Temp Space

The following query from OEM agent keeps failing, after upgrading Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and a monitoring agent to 13.2, this query is run in the 11.2.0.4 target database:

SELECT MEDIA
 FROM V$BACKUP_PIECE_DETAILS
 WHERE SESSION_KEY=:B3 AND SESSION_RECID=:B2 AND SESSION_STAMP=:B1 
   AND DEVICE_TYPE = 'SBT_TAPE' AND ROWNUM = 1

Also it uses huge temp space :

SQL> select USERNAME,TABLESPACE,BLOCKS*8/1024/1024 
      from V$TEMPSEG_USAGE 
  order by BLOCKS desc ;

USERNAME   TABLESPACE                       BLOCKS*8/1024/1024
---------- ------------------------------- ------------------
DBSNMP     TEMP                             30.649414

It is the exact same issue as per (Doc ID 2201982.1). so the following actions are taken :

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats ('SYSTEM');

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats ('SYS');

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_dictionary_stats;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Finally flush the cursor out of memory for next running :

SQL> select address, hash_value,PLAN_HASH_VALUE, executions, 
            loads, version_count, invalidations, parse_calls 
      from v$sqlarea 
     where sql_id='dx4nqvbtu06bx';

ADDRESS          HASH_VALUE PLAN_HASH_VALUE EXECUTIONS LOADS    
---------------- ---------- --------------- ---------- -----
VERSION_COUNT INVALIDATIONS PARSE_CALLS
------------- ------------- -----------
00000001418FA048 4087355773 1896464546      213        5          
1             1             213

SQL> exec dbms_shared_pool.purge('00000001418FA048,4087355773','C');

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> select address, hash_value,PLAN_HASH_VALUE, executions, loads, 
            version_count, invalidations, parse_calls 
       from v$sqlarea 
      where sql_id='dx4nqvbtu06bx';

no rows selected

Have a check of the new execution time. We can see the new execution plan is created, and the execution time is only 0.25 second.

SQL> select address, hash_value,PLAN_HASH_VALUE, executions,
            ELAPSED_TIME,ELAPSED_TIME/executions/1000000 TimePerExecution
      from v$sqlarea 
     where sql_id='dx4nqvbtu06bx';

ADDRESS          HASH_VALUE  PLAN_HASH_VALUE EXECUTIONS ELAPSED_TIME 
---------------- ----------- --------------- ---------- ------------ 
TIMEPEREXECUTION
----------------
00000001418FA048   4087355773   75529090       2          504858       .252429