Re: Jan 2015 JVM PSU
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 08:54:22 -0500
Message-ID: <CA+fnDAbaajEnDawjcGLwAppy+jf+cm6ONaPs=9con7KE5ND4pQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Chitale, Hemant K <Hemant-K.Chitale_at_sc.com> wrote:
> IMHO, a bad idea. Components increasingly have dependencies.
Not testing all of your processes - which should discover dependencies - is a bad idea. Not installing unneeded components is definitely a good idea. (Also a requirement for some more stringent audits and certifications.)
> For example, I
> remember that export would fail if JVM wasn't properly installed (maybe
> export works if JVM isn't installed at all) Since 10g I've always installed
> the JVM.
I have never encountered data pump export being dependent on the JVM. The only export oddity I've run into is TTS exports pre-11.2.0.3 will fail of xmldb is not installed - but this is not a dependency it's a bug. There's a workaround (exclude=xmlschema) and patches available to fix it. Dependencies should be documented as such; if you find a "dependency" which is not documented then you should be opening a bug against it so that it will either get acknowledged as an explicit dependency and documented, or it will get fixed. That sort of thing is a very obvious bug report since it's so easily reproducible.
-Jeremy
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