Re: anyone else get told they have to wait 4 months for a bug fix?

  • From: Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:29:35 -0600

Ryan,

Not to be unhelpful, but if you're interested, I can regale you with several
stories of what happened to me/us back when Oracle Support used to ship
one-off patches.  All I'll say is:  this is a huge improvement and something
you don't want to second-guess...

-Tim

on 5/24/04 8:56 AM, ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx at ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx wrote:

> This is in production... and we transport large tablespaces daily. Can you
> believe this? We will have serious interruptions in service.
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> Your Service Request has been reassinged to the High Availability group. You
> are hitting bug 3601253.
> 
> It is not possible to deliver a one off patch for this issue. The problem is,
> that to be able to fix this bug we need a change in the SGA. Changing the
> layout of the SGA cannot be done in an one off, because every bit of code that
> accesses the sga would need to be recompiled and shipped. That would involve
> most of the object files in the database.
> 
> There is not other option than to apply the next patchset. The fix will be
> available in the next patch release which is 9.2.0.6.
> 
> The 9.2.0.6 patchset is scheduled to be available around september.
> 
> Please close this SR if the information mentioned above is sufficient.
> Please update this SR with additional information if it is not.
> 
> Thanks,
> Henry
> 
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