10.1.0.4 GeoRaster Users Warning

Question

When you apply the 10.1.0.4 patch, the MDSYS.SDO_GEOR_SYSDATA_TABLE is dropped and recreated in the MDSYS schema. This will wipe out your GeoRaster entries for data you have loaded.
Before you apply the 10.1.0.4 patch, if you have GeoRaster data loaded:
Connect as a privileged user.
Alter session set current_schema = mdsys;
create table temp_geor_sysdata as select * from SDO_GEOR_SYSDATA_TABLE;
Apply the patch.
After applying the patch and following the postinstallation instructions:
Connect as a privileged user.
Alter session set current_schema = mdsys;
insert into SDO_GEOR_SYSDATA_TABLE (select * from temp_geor_sysdata);

Answer 1

Chris - and there's the problem. I didn't properly record the error at the time (except that it was an ORA-00600 error, and hence a "call Oracle support" one) as I thought the whole script was going to fall over. It completed OK after that and seems to be working ok now. When I get a chance I'll try it again, but it means doing a reinstall as I think the uninstall script doesn't take things exactly back to where they were before.
Mark