I had some trouble like this way-back-when 8i was released. I found out that
8i listener couldn't service 8.0.5 (8.0.6 was OK). I had to set up named
listeners and that worked OK in my environment.
>From: "Darrell Landrum" <darrell_at_landrum.com>
>Reply-To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>Subject: Re: 9i listener for 8i DB not recommended???
>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:37:27 -0600
>
>I'm with you, Rich. I don't know where I got it, but I've believed it to
>be
>appropriate if not recommended to run the listener from the latest release
>you have installed for that release and each one prior that you may have on
>that system (unless you need a special listener for some reason.). We
>currently do that. The only problem I've encountered is running a 9i
>listener from a 64 bit install and using that for an 8i, 32 bit instance.
>The listener crashed a lot.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com>
>To: "ORACLE-L (E-mail)" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:29 PM
>Subject: 9i listener for 8i DB not recommended???
>
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > While trying to debug a particularly nasty old app, I ran across this on
>doc
> > 77442.1 on MetaLink:
> >
> > Please note that we don't advise to use a version 9 listener for a
>version
> > 8 database
> > or a version 10 listener for a version 9 or 8 database seen there where
>many
> > changes
> > to the NLS layers between those versions.
> >
> > As Moe Syzlak says, "WHAAAAAA??!?" This is exactly opposite from
>everything
> > else I've heard, although to be fair, I can't recall exactly where I've
> > heard that. That and the fact that we haven't been using the ORA_NLSxx
> > variable since it starting cauing problems when we migrated from 7.3 to
>8.0,
> > which accoring to this doc, is a no-no.
> >
> > Comments?
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> > rich.jesse_at_quadtechworld.com QuadTech, Sussex, WI USA
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