It's an example. But not of that.

It's an example of old things being new again maybe. Or reinventing the wheel because the wheel wasn't known to them.

Yes I know, nobody wants to pay that tax or make that guy richer, but databases like Oracle have had JPPD for a long time. It's just something the database does and the optimizer chooses whether to do it or not depending on whether it's the best thing to do or not.