Re: Bug? ORA-03113 on ORDER BY DESC (9iR2)

Bob Burgess wrote:

> We're running 9iR2 on Win2k and it seems to have a strange bug which I
> can't find reference to in Metalink or Google.
>
> When I execute this:
> SELECT 'A' x FROM dual ORDER BY 1 DESC
> or this:
> SELECT 'A' FROM dual ORDER BY 1 DESC
> ...I get an immediate crash of the server thread: ORA-03113
> End-of-file on communication channel.
>
> But this works:
> SELECT dummy FROM dual ORDER BY 1 DESC
> and this works also:
> SELECT 'A' x FROM dual ORDER BY x DESC
>
>
> Does this happen to everyone? The crash seems to happen when sorting,
> descending, by column position, for an un-named column, whether or not
> it has an alias.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Bob Burgess
> Montreal

On RH9:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production

SQL> SELECT 'A' FROM dual ORDER BY 1 DESC; SELECT 'A' FROM dual ORDER BY 1 DESC
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel