ORA-31038: Invalid enumeration value: "StatelessWithFastRestPackageState"

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This error is caused by a nice Oracle documentation typo: the enumerated constant StatelessWithFastRestPackageState is misspelled in table 37-19 (in both 10.2 and 11.1 DBMS_EPG chapters of PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference), but is correctly reported elsewhere (too bad I read the wrong one first...).

begin
  dbms_epg.set_dad_attribute('APEX','session-state-management','StatelessWithFastRestPackageState');
  commit;
end;
/
 
Error starting at line 3 in command:
begin
  dbms_epg.set_dad_attribute('APEX','session-state-management','StatelessWithFastRestPackageState');
  commit;
end;
Error report:
ORA-31038: Invalid enumeration value: "StatelessWithFastRestPackageState"
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_EPG", line 89
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_EPG", line 222
ORA-06512: at line 2

As you can easily guess, an "e" must be inserted: StatelessWithFastResetPackageState

By the way, according to the HTTP server documentation (referring to Apache as a matter of fact) the default value for this attribute should be StatelessWithResetPackageState, however the best value for Oracle XE (as well as Oracle 9 and above) should be StatelessWithFastResetPackageState.

And now for the real question is: how am I going to measure any benefit from this change?
The short answer is: I don't know, but I hope to see lower elapsed_time values in apex_workspace_activity_log.

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