Parallelism and partitioning are two excellent features of Oracle. What is the relation between CBO and these two guys? Well I catch some issues. First of all lets create a table with range partitioning:
SQL> select version from v$instance;
VERSION
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10.2.0.1.0
CREATE TABLE part_table
PARTITION BY RANGE (c1)(
PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (100000),
PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (200000),
PARTITION p3 VALUES [...]