XDB 9.2.0.3 and sqlPlus 9.2.0.1

Question

Recently upgraded our 9i development server to 9.2.0.3 because we were having problems with XDB version 9.2.0.1 of the database. Once theses upgrades were performed we started having some other issues.
Seems using sqlPlus 9.2.0.1 from our client has problems performing basic operations with XDB 9.2.0.3, and Mark recently confirmed this in another post problem with installing basic demo A simple test like this fails:
SQL> select XDBUriType('/xdbconfig.xml').getXML() from dual;
ERROR: ORA-21500: internal error code, arguments: [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s], [%s]
From our upgraded server running 9.2.0.3 sqlPlus it seems to work fine:
SQL> select XDBUriType('/xdbconfig.xml').getXML() from dual;
XDBURITYPE('/XDBCONFIG.XML').GETXML()
<xdbconfig xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/xdb/xdbconfig.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://w
How is everyone upgrading their client, or rather sqlPlus to 9.2.0.3? I finally broke down and installed 9i Personnel and used the RDBMS 9.2.0.3 patch on my workstation to get it done. If there is a better way to get this done, I couldn't find it. I'd hate to have our db developers install 9i personnel, it seems like an extreme solution. Any help would appreciated.

Answer 1

If I remember correctly, the first time I tried to update Installer from 2.2.0.12 (by manually selecting products.jar from directory where I extracted 2.2.0.18), the thing got stuck somewhere at 90%.
So I restarted machine and run setup.exe from 2.2.0.18 directory (it performs automatic uninstall of 2.2.0.12).
After that I had no problems.