Dave,
the quoted doc fragment is obsolete, it documents a legacy limitation that surely doesn't apply to 10g anymore (as your test proves).
That fragment did deceive me as well.
hth Alberto
On 10/4/06, Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (snip)
According to the Oracle10g SQL Reference Guide, under Restrictions for CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE, it says: * Parallel DML and parallel queries are not supported for temporary tables. Parallel hints are ignored. Specification of the parallel_clause returns an error.
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