Re: Testing a new release (7.3 on OpenVMS)

Jay Hostetter wrote:

> I am installing Oracle 7.3 on a test machine so that I can play around
>
> with it before we do into production. I have 2 questions:
> 1) I plan to create tables, import, export, etc. What other things
> can
> I do to test the stability of a release?
> 2) For those of you who have installed 7.3 on VMS (ALPHA) - Is there
> anything I should watch out for?

We have not seen any real problems, although we don't exercise the database
very hard.

Some observations:
7.3 seems pickier with privs - our development account that just had netmbx,tmpmbx,setprv used to be able to startup the listener. Now the account must have cmkrnl,group as default privs because of the $grantid service.

We had to put a wait in our startup command file between starting the instances(2) and the listener. The listener would get errors until

I put a 30sec wait.

If you use the reserve memory feature, you will get lots of audit$server

messages w/NOMESSAGE. Apparently this is a DEC bug of something Oracle is using. No response on a fix yet. It happens during precompiles
and sqlplus.

Shael Received on Tue Jun 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT