Creating indexes on columns where primary key or unique key constraints already present

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I am currently learning indexes in Oracle. In Oracle documentation, following can be found :

Although the database creates an index for you on a column with an integrity constraint, explicitly creating an index on such a column is recommended.

Can anybody here tell me the rationale behind this ? If database creates an index automatically, why should we create another index on those columns explicitly ?

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