Oracle-L: RE: 8.1.7.3 - Good or Bad?

From: <alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 08:38:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0045A01D.20020507083824@fatcity.com>

Vivek,

Although there is not much more information, here is the complete message from April 17th, 2002:

Jack:

First of all, there are some serious problems with 8.1.7.3 that can cause database crashes and corruption. One bug (may be solaris specific) can crash
the box. I would highly recommend that you "only" upgrade to 8.1.7.2 unless absolutely necessary. We have downgraded all of our 8.1.7.3 databases to 8.1.7.2 (a *very* painful experience)

That said, I never had trouble upgrading directly to 8.1.7.2 directly from 8.1.5.x or 8.1.6.x. We have done in development, staging and production without any adverse effects. I don't think I've ever done a 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 directly.

Kevin

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Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi All,

we are in the process of upgrading to 8.1.7.3 some of our databases (now 8.0.5)
According to the Doc's thsi has to be done in two steps Upgrade to 8.1.7.0.0 followed by and upgrade to 8.1.7.3.0.

This means that we have to upgrade all our databases in one go, or install another base 8.1.7 install to do some databases later.

On our test system however we have upgraded directly form 8.0.5 and all seems to be fine.

Anybody care to comment/share their opinions/experiences

TIA Jack

Can anyone else confirm Kevin's claims about 8.1.7.3???

Alan

                                                                                                                   
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Bugs in 8.1.7.3 that Can Crash the Box ? What Bug Number is that ? Can you Alternately post "Kevin Toepke" E-mail OR Specify the Date of His posting ?

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Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 2:25 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Oracle Gurus,

I seem to be running into memory leaks on an 8.1.7.0 database on Solaris 8. After searching metalink and reading some patch release notes, it looks like we might be having problems with the XML parser and/or LOBs. We are thinking of upgrading to 8.1.7.3, but I am a little leery after Kevin Toepke posted this message a few weeks ago:

First of all, there are some serious problems with 8.1.7.3 that can cause database crashes and corruption. One bug (may be solaris specific) can crash the box. I would highly recommend that you "only" upgrade to 8.1.7.2 unless absolutely necessary. We have downgraded all of our 8.1.7.3 databases to 8.1.7.2 (a *very* painful experience) ...

Kevin makes it sound like a terrible patch. What do all of you think that have gone to 8.1.7.3? Was it worth it? Anyone using LOBs and/or XML utilites with this release?

Thanks,

Alan Aschenbrenner
Oracle DBA
IHS Group
alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com
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