A select from internal partition crashes Oracle

Question

I have the following INTERNAL partitioned table and local index by BUREAU_CODE:
CREATE TABLE fin_mea (
    fin_mea_uid                    NUMBER NOT NULL,
    fiscal_month_uid               NUMBER NOT NULL,
    fiscal_year_uid                NUMBER NOT NULL,
    bureau_code                    VARCHAR2(3) NOT NULL,
    main_acct_code                 VARCHAR2(4),
    sub_acct_code                  VARCHAR2(3),
    net_amt                        NUMBER(23,2))
  PARTITION BY RANGE (fiscal_month_uid)
  INTERVAL (1)
  (PARTITION fmea_initial VALUES LESS THAN (200501) );
CREATE INDEX fin_mea_bureau_idx ON fin_mea (bureau_code  ASC) LOCAL;
When I try to select rows from non-existing partition with a condition which uses indexed column Oracle crashes with 'End of communication channel' error:
SELECT * FROM fin_mea partition for (201301) a where a.bureau_code = 'ZZZ'
The following one works even no rows selected:
select * from (SELECT * FROM fin_mea partition for (201301)) a  where a.bureau_code = 'ZZZ';
If I delete index then first query works with no problem:
SELECT * FROM fin_mea partition for (201301) a where a.bureau_code = 'ZZZ'
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0

Answer 1

The following is the full script. I renamed field names and removed tablespace section.
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Jul 19 18:23:38 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> drop table fin_mea;
Table dropped.
SQL> CREATE TABLE tfs.fin_mea (
  2      fin_mea_uid          NUMBER NOT NULL,
  3      field2               NUMBER NOT NULL,
  4      fiscal_month_uid     NUMBER NOT NULL,
  5      field4               NUMBER NOT NULL,
  6      field5               NUMBER NOT NULL,
  7      field6               NUMBER NOT NULL,
  8      field7               NUMBER NOT NULL,
  9      field8               VARCHAR2(24) NOT NULL,
10      field9               NUMBER NOT NULL,
11      bureau_code          VARCHAR2(3) NOT NULL,
12      field11              VARCHAR2(3),
13      field12              VARCHAR2(3),
14      field13              NUMBER(4),
15      field14              NUMBER(4),
16      field15              VARCHAR2(1),
17      field16              VARCHAR2(4),
18      field17              VARCHAR2(3),
19      field18              NUMBER(4),
20      field19              NUMBER(4),
21      field20              NUMBER(5),
22      field21              VARCHAR2(3),
23      field22              VARCHAR2(2),
24      field23              NUMBER(4),
25      net_amt              NUMBER(23,2))
26    PARTITION BY RANGE (fiscal_month_uid)
27    INTERVAL (1)
28    (PARTITION fmea_initial VALUES LESS THAN (200501) )
29    PCTFREE     10
30    INITRANS    1
31    MAXTRANS    255
32    NOCACHE
33    MONITORING
34    NOPARALLEL
35    LOGGING
36  /
Table created.
SQL>
SQL> CREATE INDEX tfs.fin_mea_org_idx ON tfs.fin_mea LOCAL
  2    (bureau_code  ASC
  3    )
  4    PCTFREE     10
  5    INITRANS    2
  6    MAXTRANS    255
  7    NOPARALLEL
  8    LOGGING
  9  /
Index created.
SQL>
SQL> SELECT * FROM fin_mea partition for (201301) a where a.bureau_code = 'ZZZ';
SELECT * FROM fin_mea partition for (201301) a where a.bureau_code = 'ZZZ'
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel