he focus of patch sets as a fix delivery vehicle. Oracle has included a very small number of new features in past patch sets. In this case, after the release of Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2.0.1), Oracle completed development of a small number of features that are closely related to the 11.2 release, and Oracle is including these features so that you can use them now, rather than wait for their inclusion in next major release.