hmm. so the first parent is ora$base. Tim Hall didn’t show dropping that, only
dropping the “leaf.”
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Daniel Fink
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 4:19 PM
To: oracle-l
Subject: EBR and ORA-38810
Working on a POC for using Edition Based Redefinition for patching a 12c
environment. The client plans on weekly, perhaps more frequent, patching and
wants to avoid downtime. EBR *appears* to be the answer.
One main issue is the cleanup of old editions. For a simple POC (using the
example at oracle-base as the source), I create an edition (v1), then another
(v2) for a view and procedure. Once I have 'migrated' to V2, I want to be able
to drop V1. However when I try to drop that edition, the command results in
"ORA-38810: Implementation restriction: cannot drop edition that has a parent
and a child".
I find online information that indicates you can drop an edition, however none
of them show an actual example of the creation and subsequent drop of an
edition. And in looking at the architecture of editioning published by Oracle
(an edition is always the child of the most recent edition, causing the
previous edition to be a parent), it seems like no edition, other than the most
recent one, can ever be dropped.
Is this accurate or am I missing something?
Regards,
Daniel Fink
