Vivek,
Although there is not much more information, here is the complete
message from April 17th, 2002:
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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
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Can anyone else confirm Kevin's claims about 8.1.7.3???
Alan
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Please respond
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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 ?
-----Original Message-----
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)
...
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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
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