RE: quote a few reasons to downgrade a database release

>>>01060412210634 17-APR-06
>>> 26.978 121 COGLINE 100
>>>
>>>Obviously the rule hint does still work.

How does that prove the rule hint worked? This is a new 10gR2 hint that I just tested:

$ sqlplus rw/rw

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Mon May 1 13:31:15 2006

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> select /*+ bogus_hint */ count(*) from product ;

  COUNT(*)

   1215903

SQL>

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