Re: No OFA directory structure status (was: ORACLE 7.2)

In article <45tfur$bpn_at_cronkite.d48.lilly.com>, Robert W. Swisshelm <swisshelm_at_lilly.com> wrote:
> I am attempting to shoot Oracle's QA department. We are also very upset with
> their decision to drop OFA support in 7.2. We also got upset because they
> didn't make any real attempt to tell people that they did it, or why. I am
> trying to get those answers from the product managers at Oracle.

Great. I look forward to hearing their excuses.

> FYI...It looks like all they did to de-support OFA was to comment out one
> section of code in their orainst procedure.
> [...]. So, I 'uncommented' the code [...]
> I created a database and it put all the files in $ORACLE_BASE/admin as
> expected.

Wonderful! Thankyou.

> I was also ticked at the QA people because the crdb2.sql file that gets
> created by orainst includes an 'OPTIMAL' parameter on the CREATE TABLESPACE
> TEMP command, which is incorrect. Oracle 7.1 ignored this. Oracle 7.2 does
> not, so the create failed. Obviously no one tested this before they decided
> to ship out the new release.

Sigh. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It defies belief.

Tim. Received on Fri Oct 20 1995 - 00:00:00 CET