Recently I had to gather pending stats with Object Filter List by several objects, so I copied example from documentation and was surprised: instead of gather stats by specified filter list, oracle started to gather stats for all tables in current_schema! And ‘filter list’ applies only with dbms_stats.GATHER_DATABASE_STATS
UPD: Jared Still gave link to registered bug id, which i couldn’t find in MOS before:
Bug 12754926 – DBMS_STATS.gather_schema_stats does not work with an obj_filter_list parameter specified [ID 12754926.8]
Modified:04-Jan-2012 Type:PATCH Status:PUBLISHED
This issue is fixed in 11.2.0.4 (Future Patch Set)
PS. Also there is a typo in the example from oracle documentation: ‘gather_stale’ instead of ‘gather stale’ – underline instead of blank space.