Wrong Results

Just in – a post on the Oracle-L mailing lists asks: “Is it a bug if a query returns one answer if you hint a full tablescan and another if you hint an indexed access path?” And my answer is, I think: “Not necessarily”:

SQL> select /*+ full(pt_range)  */ n2 from pt_range where n1 = 1 and n2 = 1;

        N2
----------
         1
SQL> select /*+ index(pt_range pt_i1) */ n2 from pt_range where n1 = 1 and n2 = 1;

        N2
----------
         1
         1

The index is NOT corrupt.

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