Why oracle text index column taking long time

Question

why oracle text index column is taking long time to return result.I created text index on a column if I run the query on a single table result is very fast.If I join table with other table (10 records only )
it is taking long time but in explain plan it is searching by index only.
I created this index for searching a varchar2 column,the data is comma seperated values like ( UK,US,IT,BR) and the table having records 20 lakhs.Normally if I query with like operater
( like '%US%' ) it is taking full table scan because I am using '%' both sides. Please help me on this regard how to search the data with less time. Here is may sample code and explain plan.
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Jan 28 16:54:22 2009
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Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> set timing on
SQL> set linesize 180
SQL> explain plan for SELECT T.esongid FROM (SELECT A.ESONGID FROM wcmedeco.EDECO_ESONGS_TERR_CTRY 
A WHERE CONTAINS(A.TERR_CTRY_NAMES,'US')>0  
  2  GROUP BY A.ESONGID)K,T
  3  WHERE  K.ESONGID=T.ESONGID;
Explained.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
SQL> select *from table(dbms_xplan.display);
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
| Id  | Operation                      |  Name                   | Rows  | Bytes | Cost  |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT               |                         |     1 |    26 |     4 |
|   1 |  NESTED LOOPS                  |                         |     1 |    26 |     4 |
|   2 |   VIEW                         |                         |     1 |    13 |     4 |
|   3 |    SORT GROUP BY               |                         |     1 |    89 |     4 |
|   4 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| EDECO_ESONGS_TERR_CTRY  |     1 |    89 |     2 |
|   5 |      DOMAIN INDEX              | IDX_TERR_CTRY_NAMES     |       |       |     0 |
|   6 |   INDEX RANGE SCAN             | IDX_ESONGID_T           |     1 |    13 |     1 |
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Note: cpu costing is off, 'PLAN_TABLE' is old version
14 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
SQL> Regards,
Rajasekhar

Answer 1

You have not formatted your code properly so we cannot see the query you're executing. Please put some line breaks in.
Secondly, how fresh are the statistics on those tables? Are you really returning one record out of twenty million?
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