Re: Merge patches

Hi!

I think most of people here have applied several one-off patches successfully, at least I have.
But the issue is, as the name says, the one-off patches are only for fixing a certain bit of behaviour, they havent been tested in heavy-loaded envrionments where they could affect each other. But eventually these one-offs make their way to patchsets, which are stress tested for reliability. So, you are on your own risk when going with multiple one-offs, but in my experience it has worked.
Others may have different experience, though..

Tanel.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:59 PM

> OK, maybe I'm going crazy or senile, but I seem to recall Oracle stating
> that if you needed to apply more than 1 patch, you would need to request
> a merge patch. I think this was about a year ago and caused us to
> downgrade a database to resolve a problem since the turn-around time for
> the merge patch was not going to beet our requirements.
>
> Does anyone else remember this? Are they still doing this or can
> multiple 1-off patches be applied now?
>
> Stephen
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