The following description of a bug appeared on the Oracle Developer Community forum a little while ago – on an upgrade from 12c to 19c a query starting producing the wrong results on a simple call to the average() function. In fact it turned out to be a bug introduced in 12.2.0.1.
The owner of the thread posted a couple of zip files to build a test case – but I had to do a couple of edits, and change the nls_numeric_characters to ‘,.’ in order to get past a formatting error on a call to the to_timestamp() function. I’ve stripped the example to a minimum, and translated column name from German (which was presumably the source of the nls_numeric_characters issue) to make it easier to demonstrate and play with the bug.
