Mark, can you do me a favor and try to extract a definition of a table with at least one LOB column from 9.2.0.6 database using DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL? It doesn't work on Solaris and it doesn't work on Linux. I wonder whether the bug was local to those two platforms or global? -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:07 AM To: Oracle Discussion List Subject: RE: 10gR2 for solaris (64bit), AIX and HP released >> Special mention of my black list: 9.2.0.6 with RAC (first time I had to roleback a patchset!).<< [rollback] Interesting we have found 9.2.0.6 RAC on AIX to be much more stable than 9.2.0.4 or 9.2.0.5. So far (couple months) we have not ran into the system hang and crash problems that we suffered from on the lower versions. However, two one-off patches were required prior to going production. The first fixed a slow long on and very slow first run of any query problem. I cannot remember what problem the second patch fixed but both patches were AIX specific with the second being required only for RAC environments. HTH -- Mark D Powell --