Re: New Oracle Home for listener install?

Personally, I've never even thought about this as a configuration for my server. I understand why you want to do it. But why would you upgrade to 9.2.0.4 on the listener without upgrading the database at the same time? And if the listener is down for your upgrade, so is the database (to any new outside connections). So while I understand why you want to do this, I'm not sure that the benefits of a non-standard configuration are really worth it.

HTH,
Brian

Snid wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of installing Oracle's network stuff in a new oracle home so
> that I can upgrade or patch the listener at short notice without affecting
> the rest of the oracle stuff.
>
> For example, if you want to upgrade the listener from 9.2.0.3 to 9.2.0.4 (on
> Solaris) you can simply upgrade the listener without haveing to worry about
> upgrading the databases as quickly.
>
> Obviously you would still need to do comprehensive testing of the upgraded
> listener before upgrading production's listener, but I can see this being
> quite beneficial.
>
> How many people currently run their oracle installations like this and what
> are the traps to look out for?

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