Re: Patch sanity check

From: Janine Ohmer <janine_at_furfly.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:07:06 -0800
Message-Id: <E3A1E236-9A72-49B5-BC79-DDAC1CE88D66_at_furfly.net>

I hope I'm not being dense, but the readme for the PSU says "To install the PSU 11.2.0.2.1 patch, the Oracle home must have the 11.2.0.1.0 Database installed. Subsequent PSU patches can be installed on Oracle Database 11.2.0.1.0 or any PSU with a lower 5th numeral version than the one being installed."

I "ass"umed, from the name of the PSU, and this requirement, that it was going to install the 11.2.0.2.1 update. If that is not the case then I guess I need to install the standalone update and then find a PSU that requires 11.2.0.2.1?

*sigh* As I said, it has been quite a while since I last had access to patches, but I seem to recall this process being a lot more straightforward.

janine

On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Allen, Brandon wrote:

> You need to install 11.2.0.2 first if you want the latest patch set, then 11.2.0.2.1 if you want the latest PSU. The patch sets are full installs as of 11.2.0.2, but PSUs (patch set updates) are not full installs - they are just small quarterly updates similar to a CPU, but inclusive of additional "high priority, low risk" bug fixes in addition to the CPU security updates.
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> I hope that helps clear things up.
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> Regards,
> Brandon
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