Re: how to activate oracle text in 10g enterprise

From: Palooka <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:32:07 +0000
Message-ID: <1Fl%k.33000$lR4.28989@newsfe03.ams2>

BicycleRepairman wrote:
> On Dec 7, 5:19 pm, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:

>> hpuxrac wrote:
>>> On Dec 6, 3:46 pm, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>> BicycleRepairman wrote:
>>>>> In 10g, Oracle Text is a component of the db. You can't not have it,
>>>>> and there is nothing to install.
>>>> Completely incorrect. As Steve Howard mentions, catctx.sql installs it.
>>>> Incidentally, catnoctx.sql removes it.
>>>> Palooka
>>> You gotta do something unusual not to have text already installed and
>>> working in a 10.2 environment.
>>> Gotta say Bicycle is "a little closer" than you are here.
>>> Judging by futher responses from OP now he is trying to re-install it
>>> when it was already in there ... nice work!
>> Sorry, but I disagree with your first two paragraphs. We don't all use
>> the pre-cooked databases, or use DBCA and accept everything.
>>
>> Agree the third paragraph though.
>>
>> Palooka

>
> I made the entirely reasonable extrapolation that someone who was
> unfamiliar with Oracle would choose to either (a) let the universal
> installer perform the db configuration, (b) use DBCA to install a
> general purpose database, or (c) if he wanted to study otext, and was
> brave enough to choose a custom database, he would not deselect the
> 'Oracle Text' option from the DBCA screen.
> So while I agree that "We don't all use the pre-cooked databases, or
> use DBCA and accept everything", I'll bet you OP did.
>

Not so. You said "Oracle Text is a component of the db. You can't not have it"

..which is incorrect, twist and turn though you may.

Palooka Received on Mon Dec 08 2008 - 21:32:07 CST