Re: Upgrade issues -- COFF & ELF

From: Richard Ellison <rellison_at_nosc.mil>
Date: 1996/08/01
Message-ID: <4tqq5v$d70_005_at_atlantis.nosc.mil>#1/1

As an Oracle DBA at a site using Texas Instruments Composer (CASE tool), I'm quite familiar with the "COFF vs. ELF" issue on Dynix/ptx. Oracle provided both COFF and ELF version of 7.2 but has switched over to ELF-only with 7.3 (like the rest of the UNIX world).

This ELF-only Oracle RDBMS is a problem for TI, since their product will not support ELF executables until Composer 4, due out in December. This issue is holding up our upgrade to 7.3.x.

My only point here on upgrades, make sure your vendors support ELF if you're upgrading to 7.3.x! It can hold up your upgrade.

In article <NEWTNews.838930200.12656.kneubaue_at_kneubaue.standard.com>,

   kneubaue_at_standard.com wrote:

I have just upgraded to ptx 4.1.3, COFF is still supported. From my memory at the SURF conference, COFF is will be supported up to PTX/4.3.
Ken

Oracle 7.2.3 ELF is available for Dynix/ptx 4.1.2. Its been available for about 6 months. We ran Oracle 7.1.6 COFF under Dynix/ptx 4.1.0 for several months as well. Check with Sequent to see if COFF is still supported under ptx 4.1.3.
Oracle says: only Oracle 7.2.3 COFF is supported on ptx 4.1.x.

So, if you are running something earlier than 7.2.3, upgrade to the newer COFF version, the perform OS upgrade.

-Joshua Wright jwright_at_nether.net
kneubaue_at_standard.com wrote:
From: john_at_americantv.com. (John Bechtel) : > Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle,comp.sys.sequent : > Subject: Upgrade issues -- COFF & ELF : > : > We are currently running Dynix/ptx 2.1.2 on a Sequent S2000, with several : > Oracle databases all running 7.1.6. We plan to upgrade to ptx 4.1.3 within : > the next few weeks. : > : > Problem: ptx 2.1.2 is COFF format, 4.1.3 is ELF format. : > Oracle DB's are alsi COFF format. : > : > Question: Is it possible to run a

COFF based database on an ELF based OS?  : >           If so, what needs
to be done to accomplish this, if anything?  : >           Are there

parameters to set, patches required, etc? : > : > Oracle support assured me that this can not be done. I find this hard to : > believe. Any and all help will be appreciated. : > Please email me directly with responses, as I don't often get a chance to : > read the newsgroups. I will post a summary of all responses received. YES you can run a COFF based database on an ELF based system, : we are doing it, no problems. The basic thing you have to : remember is to set the variable OBJ_FORM=COFF;export OBJ_FORM : for the Oracle user id. And make sure that the ROOT id variable : set to ELF. But this is really a NO-BRAINER. Received on Thu Aug 01 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST