| Oracle9i Database Reference Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A96536-02  | 
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 Parameter type  | 
 
 Integer  | 
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 Default value  | 
 
 Operating system-dependent  | 
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 Parameter class  | 
 
 Static  | 
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 Range of values  | 
 
 2148 to 65535 (64 KB - 1)  | 
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 Real Application Clusters  | 
 
 Multiple instances must have the same value.  | 
PARALLEL_EXECUTION_MESSAGE_SIZE specifies the size of messages for parallel execution (formerly referred to as parallel query, PDML, Parallel Recovery, replication).
On most platforms, the default value is 2148bytes if PARALLEL_AUTOMATIC_TUNING is set to false, and 4096 bytes if PARALLEL_AUTOMATIC_TUNING is set to true. The default value is adequate for most applications. Larger values require a larger shared pool. Larger values result in better performance at the cost of higher memory use. For this reason, replication gets no benefit from increasing the size.