Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)

Hi All,
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I bumped into an ORA-03114 error, with an associated core dump, in Oracle XE on Windows XP while doing something similar to the following test case. If anyone knows of a patch or workaround I'd appreciate hearing about it.

create table bug_table ( col xmltype );

insert into bug_table values ( xmltype( '<test>test value</test>' ) ) ;

-- this works
select rowid
from ( select bt.col as col2 from bug_table bt )
;

ROWID
------------------
AAAQs8AAEAAADm3AAA

-- this does not
select rowid
from ( select bt.col.getClobVal() as col2 from bug_table bt );

select rowid
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel