Serial or Cereal? -- follow-up

I reported a few days ago that serializable transactions do not generate errors when the underlying table is truncated although they quietly "error out" by returning incorrect results: http://oratips-ddf.blogspot.com/2006/10/serial-or-cereal.html Oracle has agreed this is a bug and should return an error. No patch has yet been issued, however I understand from knowledgeable sources this is on the way. Apparently the squeaky wheel does get the grease. :)