Hello Barbara
I did not worked with 8.1.7 but I installed patches in 8.1.6.
I think (please check this) that maybe 8.1.7.3 is just a binary and external
files replacement and no scripts are run.
In this case you need to run the scripts that convert the DB from 8.0.5 to
8.1.7
because they are not
Hi Barabara,
The wording is a bit clumsy, isn't it?
I would think you'd be fine since you're not really applying a patch, you've
already got the binaries in place. The 4th digit is just bug fixes, the
upgrade scripts (catalog.sql, catproc.sql, catrep.sql, etc. should be the
same across all 8.1.7
Barq, ;)
I've been bouncing up and down through the 8.1.7 patches on Tru64, and have
just backed out the 8.1.7.3 patch (to 8172(1)) because of bug 2220597, so I
have a suggestion to avoid an addtional code tree. Deinstall the 8172 code
then reinstall 817, migrate the production database, then ap
