Musings on 'new' OFA standard

From: EdStevens <quetico_man_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 18 Dec 2006 07:03:08 -0800
Message-ID: <1166454188.813122.15930@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

When I began working with 10g, I noticed a couple of new things. (Well, a lot of new things, but this msg is about two of them) First, the ORACLE_HOME directory had been pushed down a level -- where it once was at $ORACLE_BASE/product/<3-decimal-version> it is now (by default) at
$ORACLE_BASE/product/<3-decimal-version>/db_1

The second thing I noticed was the creation of a directory
$ORACLE_BASE/OracleHomes.

The first is documented in an appendix in the installation manuals, but the second (the OracleHomes) directory) seems to be in contradiction to the first, and a very cursory search found not mention of it. So I'm trying to think through a couple of questions that come to mind:

Under what circumstances would one want to have homes in both
$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 and
$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_2
If the product installation creates $ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 by default, why does it also create an empty $ORACLE_BASE/OracleHomes ?

Received on Mon Dec 18 2006 - 09:03:08 CST