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Release Notes
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Solaris Operating System (SPARC 64-Bit)
B15689-02
August 2005
This document contains important information that was not included in the platform-specific or product-specific documentation for this release. This document supplements Oracle Database Readme.
This document may be updated after it is released. To check for updates to this document and to view other Oracle documentation, see the Documentation section on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/
For additional information about this release, refer to the readme files located in the $ORACLE_HOME/relnotes directory.
It contains the following topics:
The latest certification information for Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) is available at:
http://metalink.oracle.com
The following products are not supported with Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2):
Grid Control Support
Oracle Database 10g release 2 (10.2) can be managed as a target by Grid Control 10.1.0.4. Oracle Database 10g release 2 is not supported by Grid Control 10.1.0.4 as a repository.
Sun Cluster 3.1 is not certified on Solaris 10
Verity
Verity filters used for Oracle Text are not supported on Solaris 10.
The /var/temp/oracle directory needs to be cleaned up before every install.
Review the following sections for information about issues that affect Oracle Database installation, configuration, and upgrade:
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Support
Installing Oracle Database on a Computer With an Existing Automatic Storage Management Instance
The list of supported installation options and supported storage types for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters are described in the updated version of this document on OTN. You must review the updated list before installing these products.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/
To install Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), install Oracle Client and choose the Administrator installation type.
Oracle Universal Installer displays an error message that reads 0. This message is displayed after you specify the database home and path in the Specify Home Details screen and click Next. Ignore the error message whenever it is displayed, and continue the installation.
Third Party Clusterware
If your deployment environment does not use SunCluster, ignore the SunCluster version, ORCLUdlm version, and patch 113800-06 errors reported by Cluster Verification Utility (CVU).
Raw Devices Shared Storage and Veritas Logical Volumes
Cluster Verification Utility validates the readiness of a cluster to install Oracle Clusterware and RAC, and create databases. It also helps verify the integrity of individual cluster components. CVU discovers raw disks, and performs shared checks for raw disks and Veritas logical volumes by verifying the unique "storage signature" across all nodes. However, it does not check whether the device is actually writeable or readable by the oracle user.
To use NAS as a shared storage for RAC, apply the following patches:
Patch 112168-03 for Solaris 8
Patch 114388-03 for Solaris 9
The following sections contain information about issues related to Oracle Database 10g and associated products:
An NLB file is a binary file that contains the settings for a specific language, territory, character set, or linguistic sort. For the initial release, NLB files are not correctly parsed or displayed. When you load an NLB file in Oracle Locale Builder, the NLB information displayed is truncated.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3354923.
When the query has single column in-lists, the materialized view has ranges, and partition change tracking rewrite is used, you might get stale results with Query Rewrite. Turn off the fresh partition containment rewrite to avoid this problem by using the following command:
SQL> alter session set "_query_rewrite_fpc" = false;
The host-based mirroring is not supported with ASM. Note that there is no issue with resilvering for storage based mirroring.
Workaround: Use ASM redundancy.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4466206.
Oracle ODBC driver for Solaris does not work if you use the REAL data type for a column and the application tries to retrieve data as native double or float data type through PL/SQL stored procedure.
Workaround: Instead of the REAL data type, use the NUMBER(s,p) data type while creating a table.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 4551566.
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B15689-02
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