resend - opatch and perl on win32 - alert 68, 9.2.0.5 patchset 3

alert #68 patches

win32:
8.1.7.4.16 - no issues - I have an apply script prepared if anyone wants a copy. 9.2.0.5.3 - no issues - notes below
10.1.0.3 - did not update any databases that were created as 10.1.0.2 - yet.

lin32:
will get to after the windows ones are done. planning on uninstalling 10g, updating RHEL 3.0 base release to RHEL 3.0 update 2 and installing 10g again, then applying 10.1.0.3.

win32 notes:

while applying the 9.2.0.5 patchset 3 last night on a test server where I installed a 5.6 release of perl from Activestate, I received an unexpected result.

as I did not explicitly specify which version of perl was to be used to run opatch.pl, the v5.0 included with apache executed the opatch script. (the install of v5.6 that I used put c:\perl\bin first in the path, not last).

it worked anyways.

I didn't realize that was how it was going to run, until I saw the output from the opatch job.

so, the version of perl shipped with apache by oracle isn't the officially certified version of perl for use with opatch, but it will do for this particular patchset.

so far no issues with 8.1.7.4.16 on win32 either. (concerned that cursor_sharing=FORCE may fail as it did with 8.1.7.4.10).

will be testing out 10.1.0.3 later this evening.

yahoo is useless the past couple of days. I'll probably subscribe from work, rather than use bdbafh_at_gmail here - and save that for c.d.o.s.

In any event, update your killfiles accordingly.

Paul

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