Very interesting. Really it is so currently, but it wasn't so always. In the Oracle 10.2 Documentation with part number B14237-02 which is the version where your link point to 1024K-1 is documented. I'm already using the 10.2 Documentation with part number B14237-01 (belongs to 10.2.0.1) - in this version 64K-1 is documented. Needless to say I've never touched those values - thousands of partitions yes, but never reached a number with more than 4 cyphers. It seems Oracle introduces features without the promotion possibilities of a new Version. Thus I should update my Documentation more often, not only for a new Version cypher directly after the first dot but every time the part number changes. thank you kf > Actually, partition count limit in 10gR1 is 64K-1, but 10gR2 is > 1024K-1. So, 10.2.0.4 should support 1million+ partitions. > > http://cs.felk.cvut.cz/10gr2/server.102/b14237/limits003.htm# > sthref4186 > ... > The number of calculated/estimated partitions is 200 000 - 300 000 ( > Yep, this is NOT a typing error !).the oracle limit for the number of > partitions per table is 64k - 1 in database version 10 ... > > Are any special one-off patches on top of 10.2.0.4 needed ? > > the patch is named version 11g which then will allow 1024k - 1 > partitions per table > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l