Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.cc.ukans.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Sybrand Bakker Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Shared library question Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:09:13 +0200 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <2lr280lpc7su7nekfpco813qju7c8ca7ck@4ax.com> Reply-To: postbus@sybrandb.verwijderdit.demon.nl References: <88eabf1e.0404170928.5b480238@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 20 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:259703 On 17 Apr 2004 10:28:44 -0700, eyal_goren@bmc.com (Eyal Goren) wrote: >Hi, >Is it possible to create an application that link to the >libclntsh.so.1 library from version 8.1.7, but run with the same >library of release 9.2 for example ??? >It looks to me, that at run time it will ask for libclntsh.so.8 so it >must be of the same release. > >Thanks >Eyal You can't mix Oracle libraries from different versions. However, your *client* application, developed against a 8.17 client, should be capable to run against a 9.2 *database*, as Oracle is downwards compatible. -- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA