Oh, and there's the possibility that you could get the WRONG RESULTS with
CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE and date fields. Check out bug# 2225065 in MetaClink.
It says it's fixed in 9i, but no mention of 8.1.7.3.
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Becker [mailto:beckerb_at_mfldclin.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: 8.1.7.3 Bugs
>
>
> Rich Jesse wrote:
> >>
> The reason I ask is that there are some ORA-7445 bugs in
> 8.1.7.2 when using
> CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE that are supposed to be fixed in 8.1.7.3.
>
> Also, is ANYONE using 8.1.7.3 on Solaris? Any problems?
> This is the first
> I've heard of downgrading from .3 to .2. Of course, it's as
> I'm prepping
> patching some Solaris8 boxes to .3 from .0. Figures.
> >>
>
> I don't know if this is the bug originally referred to in the
> thread about
> downgrading from 8.1.7.3 to 8.1.7.2, but bug 2290607 (last
> updated May 6, 2002)
> is filed against 8.1.7.3. on Solaris.
>
> QUERY WITH STAR_TRANSFORM CRASHES WITH ORA-3113, ORA_7445
>
> The cause is apparently having
> STAR_TRANSFORMATION_ENABLED=TRUE set in init.ora.
> The work-around is to set it to false (which we don't want to
> do because
> we're a datawarehouse).
>
> This appears to be a duplicate of bug 1038883; this has
> crashed our database
> a few times - we're on 8.1.6.0 on Solaris 2.7. There is also
> some confusion
> about which version has fixed this bug. The release note for
> patchset 8.1.6.3
> says bug 1038883 is fixed in 8.1.6.3; yet the bug report for
> 1038883 says it
> isn't fixed until 8.1.7.0. Now it appears to have surfaced
> again under a
> new bug number in 8.1.7.3, which makes me wonder if it's
> fixed in any version
> between 8.1.6.0 and 8.1.7.3.
>
> Which is worse:
> bug in 8.1.7.2 caused by cursor_sharing=force
> bug in 8.1.7.3 caused by start_tranformation_enabled=true?
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