Re: Bugs in Oracle 7.3.2

We have also encountered bugs with 7.3.2 on HPUX, We have had a patch related to recompilation of packages and are currently stuck with a ORDER BY clauses hanging sessions. There are known problem in this area, but ORACLE are currenty checking if we uncovered a new or known problem.

I share the view that Oracle's normally thorough quality control seems to have slipped in 7.3. Having attended a recent Oracle conference I get the impression that Oracle are are making a shaky transition from master of character based RDBMS technology to jack-of-all-trades in various trendy software fields, GUIs, CASE, WEB, Java, OO to name a few.

My worry is that their excellence is being diluted.

James Powrie

Eric Mortensen wrote:
>
> Stephen A. Rodgers wrote:
> >
> > We've encountered some rather nasty optimizer bugs in Oracle 7.3.2 on
> > Solaris. One of the bugs causes Oracle to core dump with either a
> > SIGBUS error or a SIGSEGV error, neither of which is true. Then, as a
> > result of the bug, the SGA becomes corrupt and we sometimes even lose
> > indexes. I've applied a patch which helps somewhat, but yesterday I
> > still got the abend. We are considering dropping back to 7.2 before we
> > go to production. There appear to be far too many bugs related to
> > Oracle's cost optimizer for us to continue, and 7.3.2.3 is not ready for
> > Solaris yet.
> >
> > Has anyone else encountered bugs with the 7.3.2 releases? I'm just
> > curious.
> >
>
> We have had many problems with any of Oracle's production releases
> of 7.3. Currently we are still running the beta version we
> received 7.3.1 and have not been able to move to the production
> release because of the bugs we have encountered, and we can't
> go back to 7.2 because we need the ability to write threaded code
> with Pro*C which is a feature of 7.3.
>
> The bugs we have encountered are:
>
> Pro*C code running 10 times slower then the beta release.
> Troubles with the SQL*NET in 7.3.2.2 (which was to have fixed the
> slow Pro*C problem) in even being able to connect to an Oracle database.
>
> Needless to say, we are hoping that Oracles 7.3.3 release has all
> of these bugs fixed. In my opinion, in Oracle's desire to come out
> with a Universal Server before Informex had one, Oracle sacrificed some
> of there normally very through testing they do on their database
> kernal. Hopefully they have solved these problems or Oracle 8
> will become as reliable as some of Oracle other tools.
>
> Just for your information, we are also running under Solaris.
>
> Eric Mortensen
> mortense_at_chirondiag.com
  Received on Thu Apr 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CST