Unlikely to happen. 19c is the last member of the Oracle 12c family. Oracle
20 will be something new, probably with fairly radical new features,
something like working datapatch or SQL*Developer re-written in Java 11.
Maybe, if I am allowed to dream, even LOB columns wasting less space or
storage snapshot API, something like DB2 ACS.
People are unlikely to switch to Oracle 20 or something in the new product
series before 2024. Everything else could be described as "banzai upgrade".
Oracle 19c will become stable in the next few upgrade bundles, the artist
formerly known as "PSU", and people will stick to it as long as possible.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 15:57 Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Also I think RHEL 8.0 itself is a short-lived release, the recently
released 8.1 has longer support:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Maintenance_Support_2_Phase
Perhaps Oracle is going to certify the DB on RHEL 8.1 or later... or will
use this to encourage people to move to Oracle 20c or something...
Tanel
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 4:09 AM <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's correct.
I'm a *little* surprised that there is no such certification introduced
for 19.4 since 19c is supposed to be a LTS release and many people will
currently be running on RH6 which it also doesn't support. I do appreciate
that the timing is difficult for Oracle since RH8 was only released
*after* 19c and the historic nature of certification is that database
releases were only certified against commercially available operating
systems.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 1:43 AM Gus Spier <gus.spier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unless I've missed something, at present, there is no version of Oracle
RDBMS that is certified with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 8. Does
anybody have different information?
Regards and Happy Christmas
Gus
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