Oracle 8i patch installation

From: <Long.Nguyen_at_csiro.au>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:53:20 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00412B28.20020218185320@fatcity.com>

Hi,

At my site I normally install Oracle Server EE using custom installation, i.e. I install only the products that I need.

Now an Oracle 8i patchset (e.g. 8.1.7.3 patchset) contains patches for many products (RDBMS, PL/SQL, Networking, Intermedia etc). If I install say 8.1.7.3 on top of my current 8.1.7.0 it will install not only patches for products that I have in my current 8.1.7.0 installation, but also extra patches as well. This is fine for now I can foresee a problem in future when I install additional products from the 8.1.7.0 CD. Should I reapply the 8.1.7.3 patchset then to ensure that all products are properly patches? Do you see any problem with installing the same patchset more than once for an Oracle server?

Thanks
Long
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