Re: bug & patch availability

From: Paul Drake <drak0nian_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 18 Feb 2003 22:07:53 -0800
Message-ID: <1ac7c7b3.0302182207.2f3ce8a0@posting.google.com>

Noons <nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<Xns9325DF816A576Tokenthis_at_210.49.20.254>...
> Following up on Niall Litchfield, 17 Feb 2003:
>
> > why would you not patch to 8174?. Oracle do occasionally backport patches,
> > but It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to patch the current versions.
> >
>
>
> There are some very significant differences of the CBO
> behaviour between .2 and .4. Some sites have gone through
> all the pain of upgrading their SQL to work OK with the
> quirks of .2 patch level. And they feel going to .4
> can actually cause problems. Abstracting from the usual (and boring)
> "we're running OTS app server that requires .2".
>
> Nope: "compatible" and "optimizer_compatible" don't ALWAYS work,
> I'm afraid... ;)

Nuono,

Could you please provide links (or examples) of these behavior changes? I'd be most interested.

still awaiting 8.1.7.4.8 for win32 ...

Paul Received on Wed Feb 19 2003 - 00:07:53 CST