Re: Upgrading with no patches in the "base"?

Agreed. My usual practice is to create a new Oracle home, patch it with the last patch set and then do the upgrade to the fully patched version. I see no reason why someone would upgrade to the bare, unpatched version.
Regards

On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 16:25 +0100, Frits Hoogland wrote:
> What this says to me, is that vendor is trying to see if an unpatched
> home will work, and might lead to not patching at all, because it
> works, patching would mean an extra risk.
> If not, I cannot see any valid reason for trying/testing or otherwise
> running on a version you never intent to run on.
>
> It might come from the old (approximately 15 years old that I’ve seen
> it) practice of installing software and configure it to run, and then
> leave it be. I don’t think it ever was the best way of doing it, but
> it was really common the aforementioned time ago.
>
> In todays world, there is not a single reason to create a patching
> strategy that fits your company and stick to that.
> Security is really prominent for the past 10 years or so.
> But also for supportability: if you run into an issue or a bug, one
> of the first things support will ask is to patch it to current and
> see if the problem persists.
> You could argue if that is a good practice, but I think it’s sensible
> to apply patches to get issues solved and vulnerabilities fixed you
> might have never suffered, but as a result will not run into. Of
> course there is a downside too: things might work differently.

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