How to change access path for 'where' clause by using HINTS?

Question

I searched a loooot of posts and haven't found a solution for my case. I don't even know whether it is possible or not. Is it possible to change the sequence of Oracle "Predicate Information"?
Here is my SQL and Oracle's execution plan.
  SELECT Max(logId) AS logId FROM online_users_t
  WHERE online_users_date >= to_date('2011-09-19 10:00:00') - 3.2 AND online_users_date <= to_date('2011-09-19 10:00:00') AND online_users_result in (1, -1)
  GROUP BY online_users_user
| Id  | Operation                    | Name               | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT             |                    | 24800 |   629K|  1336   (1)| 00:00:17 |
|   1 |  HASH GROUP BY               |                    | 24800 |   629K|  1336   (1)| 00:00:17 |
|*  2 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| ONLINE_USERS_T     | 38833 |   985K|  1334   (1)| 00:00:17 |
|*  3 |    INDEX RANGE SCAN          | ONLINE_USERS_T_IDX |   116K|       |   313   (1)| 00:00:04 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   2 - filter("ONLINE_USERS_RESULT"=(-1) OR "ONLINE_USERS_RESULT"=1)
   3 - access("ONLINE_USERS_DATE">=TO_DATE(' 2011-09-16 05:12:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd
              hh24:mi:ss') AND "ONLINE_USERS_DATE"<=TO_DATE(' 2011-09-19 10:00:00', 'syyyy-mm-dd
              hh24:mi:ss'))I have 2 conditions in my 'where' clause, one is date range and the other is 'online_users_result in (1, -1)'. It seems that Oracle filter the table by using 'online_users_result in (1, -1)' first, then access it through date range.
What I want to do is firstly filtering the table by using date range followed by other things. How can I do it?
Any clue or help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It seems that Oracle filter the table by using 'online_users_result in (1, -1)' first, then access it through date range. No it's not.
What I want to do is firstly filtering the table by using date range followed by other things. How can I do it?That's precisely what it's doing now.
It is using the T_IDX index to quickly find all rows that satisfy the range predicate on the date column.
And then filter those rows to only retrieve the ones that satisfy the other predicate (... in (1,-1)).