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(Message started by: Pete Finnigan on Oct 19^th, 2006, 1:59pm)

Title: Performance fixes in CPU october 2006
Post by Pete Finnigan on Oct 19^th, 2006, 1:59pm

Today I took a closer look at the latest Critical Patch Update and noticed that there performance fixes in this one. Has this happened before?

For example:
4479933 - INDEX SKIP SCAN AND OR AND BIND VARIABLES
4634368 - PERFORMANCE ISSUES WITH LOBS DURING RECLAIMATION RESULTS IN SEVERE SLOW DOWNS
4113930 - SPACE RECLAIMATION SHOWS HW ENQUEUE CONTENTION WITH CONCURRENT INSERT OF LOBS 4968994 - QUERYING REMOTE TABLES USES POOR EXECUTION PLAN
and more.

This is starting to look more like a 9.2.0 release and should be tested like one. This might take extra time and therefor it might take longer to go to production.

Title: Re: Performance fixes in CPU october 2006
Post by Pete Finnigan on Oct 24^th, 2006, 10:46pm

I'm not sure if this has happened before but according to the Oracle FAQ sheet:

11. What types of bug fixes are included in the Critical Patch Updates?

The Critical Patch Update contains fixes for high and medium severity security issues, and other non-security "critical fixes." These non-security fixes are generally:

* Prerequisites for the security patch
* Patches that large numbers of customers have requested
* Patches that may have already been applied, that may otherwise cause patch conflict.