Re: How long will 8.1.7 survive?

Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:09:26 GMT, tingl said (and I quote):
>
> Sure, you are potentially likely to run into bugs regardless of the version.
> I have encountered more bugs in 8i than 734. It is not too hard to
> understand the
> reasons. 8i patches are hundreds of megabytes now. It is even more shocking
> with 9i. Believe it or not, some of the bugs will never get fixed unless you
> upgrade
> again.

Partly agreed. 8.1.7.3/4 are the only two I'd touch nowadays. But these are darn good. 7.3.4 is quite buggy in some areas. LONG handling is one - db corruptions. The other is the optimiser (I use the term in the widest possible sense here!). And a third one is just plain wrong results in some SQL statements.

>
> > > There has been numerous, both simple and complicated apps running
> > > against 734 for many years.
> > >
> >
> > Of course. And guess what: most if not all of them (the ones still
> > selling) have upgraded to later versions of Oracle. Wanna guess why?
> > ;)
> >
>
> I hope it is not because of the reason above.
>

You got it. <G>

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