fetch across commits

     On an earlier post, someone referred me to an Oracle article about a snapshot
too old error. But the article raised another question for me. Here is the last
paragraph of the article.

 http://support.us.oracle.com/cgi-bin/cr/getpart_cr.cgi?BUL-103220.525

        Summary:Fetches across commits as explained in last two cases are not

        supported by ANSI standard. Accoding to ANSI standard a cursor

        is invalidated when a commit is performed and should be closed
        and reopened. Oracle allows users to do fetch across commits but

        users should be aware that it might result in ORA-1555.

Oracle allows users to do fetch across commits. I thought you got a fetch
out of sequence error when you did that?

• Dc.