RE: Patch a Patch

Gogala , List

QUESTION IN CAPITALS BELOW THANKS -----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 5:23 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

No. First of all, you cannot uninstall patch 8.1.7.3 because oracle hasn't provided
"uninstall" in any of the recent patch sets. You should just install over the existing
8.1.7.4. The ONLY uninstall is the full, cold backup.

DO YOU MEAN RE-EXTRACTION OF THE COLD BACKUP TAKEN PRIOR TO APPLICATION OF THE PATCH ? If you decide
that the patch set
is not for you after, let's say, a week, you are stuck. Your only option is to ask oracle
for "one off" patch for your particular bug.

QUESTION - STUCK = SINCE COLD BACKUPS TAKEN BEFORE PATCH APPLICATION WILL NOT EXIST ? That is, generally, why I do not recommend plunging, head first, into the new patchset as
soon as it appears. While waiting for two or three months, I monitor RDBMS forums on the
metablink and released "one off" patches. Only when I am reasonably sure that everything
is going to be hunky dory will I request my boss to authorize the upgrade.

On 2002.06.05 18:18 david hill wrote:
> I was just wondering if I'm allowed to apply a new patch after I have
> already installed patch. Say from 8.1.7.3 to 8.1.7.4.
> Do I have to uninstall the .3 patch and then install the .4 or what?
>
> Thanks
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