Agreed. Especially, "the cost to return value simply may not be
present for installing these patches", in this case, where it is not a
simple process to patch.
Of course, as you say, and has Tom Kyte always tells us, the correct
answer is, "It depends". :)
Difference circumstances require different measures. :)
I have some other replies that I think got blocked because of
"overquoting", which was Gmail hiding all the chain, so I reposted it
by accident. That may come through out of order later, if the
moderator lets it through. :)
Cheers
Tim...
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