Re: Problem Installing Designer 6i Repository

In article <92qtcf$2b7$1_at_qn-195-66-31-144.quicknet.nl>,   remco-blaakmeer_at_quicknet.nl wrote:
> In article <92h0lu$grv$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Brian.Duff_at_oracle.com writes:
> >
> > Yes, the fact that Designer 6i is not certified against Oracle
 8.1.7.
>
> I seriously doubt that the fact that two products aren't certified
> against each other causes them to fail.
>

No, but it means that designer 6i was released well before Oracle 8.1.7 and therefore in order to ensure that 6i worked with 8.1.7 would have required us to perform miraculous feats of time travel.

> > This is a known compatibility issue.
>
> No, it's a bug in Oracle 8.1.7, as I know now. "Combatibility issue"
 is
> a euphemism for "bug", but it's still a bug.
>
> I'd be happier with a bug fix in the database than a workaround in
> Designer, since other applications will still fail because of this
bug.

For what it's worth, you're right, this is a database bug (1396675) which manifested as spinning PL/SQL and only affected 8.1.7 (was fine in earlier releases). It has been marked as fixed in Oracle 9i, though the fix has still to be retested by QA.

Unfortunately, Designer seems to have been the first internal product which used PL/SQL code that highlighted this problem - the bug was fixed fairly quickly, but it's unfortunate it didn't make it into 8.1.7.

Brian

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