Re: Applying CPU to RAC with physical standby

From: S. Anthony Sequeira <tony_at_sequeira.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:16:28 +0100
Message-Id: <1211976988.9251.18.camel@quasar.sequestor.lan>


On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 13:59 +0200, Carel-Jan Engel wrote:
> At least I would stronly encourage not to have the standby database
> receiving and/or applying logs whilst the primary is upgraded. Oracle
> docs suggest to do this.

Yes.

> However, what if the upgrade fails? Then you have two databases
> upgraded halfway.
> I never understood why Oracle wants this approach in a HA environment.

Rollback? :)

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