Comments on: Identifying applied PSU patches

By: Dimitrios Spanos

Dimitrios Spanos — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:10:43 +0000

Just for completeness , Note 861152.1 at Oracle support says :

1. Make sure your ‘opatch’ version is at or above

* 10.2.0.4.5 for version 10.2 ORACLE_HOMEs
* 11.1.0.6.5 for version 11.1 ORACLE_HOMEs
* 11.2.0.1.0 for version 11.1 ORACLE_HOMEs

2. Verify if PSU is installed in the ORACLE_HOME

$ opatch lsinventory -bugs_fixed | egrep ‘PSU|PATCH SET UPDATE’

3. Verify the PSU Post Install steps were run in the DB

select substr(action_time,1,30) action_time,
substr(id,1,10) id, substr(action,1,10) action,
substr(version,1,8) version,
substr(BUNDLE_SERIES,1,6) bundle,
substr(comments,1,20) comments
from registry$history;

Note: The registry$history will not contain the row showing the PSU Post Install step was executed unless catbundle.sql is executed.

By: Ali Damghani

Ali Damghani — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:53:14 +0000

Jan,

If you run catbundle against existing databases, it will add a row in registry$history. However, it is not true for databases you create later in the patched home.

I really look forward to Oracle fixing this issue.

By: John Jeffries

John Jeffries — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:35:50 +0000

PSUs also contain CPUs (Critical Patch Updates). Running $ORACLE_HOME/cpu/view_recompile/view_recompile_jan2008cpu.sql as a post installation step also inserts a row in registry$history

I.e.

SELECT * FROM registry$history;
ACTION_TIME ACTION NAMESPACE VERSION ID COMMENTS
————— ——- ———- ——— ——- ——————
26-JAN-10 12.33 APPLY SERVER 11.1.0.7 1 PSU 11.1.0.7.1
26-JAN-10 12.43 CPU 6452863 view recompilation

By: Jan Polnicky

Jan Polnicky — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:55:28 +0000

RE: ’11G does not show PSU patches in registry$history’
It does (at least from 11.1.0.7.2), only if you don’t forget running the post-steps like new catbundle.sql:
@catbundle.sql psu apply

SQL> INSERT INTO registry$history
2 (action_time, action,
3 namespace, version, id,
4 bundle_series, comments)
5 VALUES
6 (SYSTIMESTAMP, ‘APPLY’,
7 SYS_CONTEXT(‘REGISTRY$CTX’,'NAMESPACE’),
8 ’11.1.0.7′,
9 2,
10 ‘PSU’,
11 ‘PSU 11.1.0.7.2′);

By: John Hallas

John Hallas — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:01:15 +0000

11G does not show PSU patches in registry$history. A MoS note suggests that functionality will not be available until 11.2.0.1 PSU 1.

It was a good comment though as I had never used that view before

John

By: odenysenko

odenysenko — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:01:07 +0000

Hi.

To identify CPU/PSU/PS installation just quertin
registry$history

Oleksandr

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