When partitions in a table have been explicitly locked, “lock_table_stats” and “unlock table_stats” do not override this behaviour

Problem Statement: rdbms version 11.1.0.7 – HPUX When partitions in a table have been explicitly locked, “lock_table_stats” and “unlock table_stats” do not override this behaviour.   Question To Answer:   Is what we are seeing expected behaviour/documented? I have a table (t1). It has two partitions (p1 and p2).   I lock the statistics on p1 using dbms_stats.lock_partition_stats. I lock [...]