Known Issues specific to the 11.2.0.4 Patch Set

Please note that 11.2 Patch Sets 11.2.0.2 and higher are supplied as full releases. See Note:1189783.1 for details.

• See Note:880782.1 for Support Status and Alerts affecting 11.2.0 releases.

This note lists known install / alert issues specific to the 11.2.0.4 Patch Set.
It should be read in conjunction with the platform specific Patch Set release note (sometimes referred to as the README).

This note includes details of:

• Generic comments not included in the Patch Set READMEs
• Known install issues specific to 11.2.0.4, both generic and port specific
• Bugs introduced in 11.2.0.4 (which do not affect 11.2.0.3)
• Alerted issues which affect 11.2.0.4
• Availability details for 11.2.0.4 by platform

This note does NOT list ALL issues which affect this Patch Set.
To get an indication of other issues known to affect this release you can search My Oracle Support for "Patches" which exist for your platform / release.

Latest Critical Patch Update

For information about Critical Patch Updates see the Oracle Technology Network page "Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts". Note that for Database, Critical Patch Updates are a subset of each Patch Set Update. The latest Patch Set Update for this release is listed in the next section. For further information about Patch Set Updates seeNote:854428.1.

Document	Summary
Note:467881.1	Critical Patch Update Advisory (Jan 2014)
Note:1594621.1	Critical Patch Update for Database Products (Jan 2014)

Current Recommended Patches

For information about Recommended Patches for the RDBMS see Note:756671.1 .

Patch Set Updates

Document	Description	Rolling RAC	Patch Download
Note:17478514.8	11.2.0.4.1 (Jan 2014) Database Patch Set Update (PSU)	Yes	Patch:17478514

11.2.0.4 Alerts / Issues

This section lists alerts and important issues relevant to 11.2.0.4 .

General Alerts / Issues

Bug/Doc	Fixed in PSU/Bundle	Description	Updated
10194190P+		Solaris: Process spin and/or ASM and DB crash if RAC instance up for > 248 days	02/Oct/2013
17761775+	11.2.0.4.BP03	ORA-600 [kclchkblkdma_3] ORA-600 [3020] or ORA-600 [kcbchg1_16] Join of temp and permanent table in RAC might lead to corruption	14/Jan/2014
17752121+	11.2.0.4.BP03	ORA-600 [kclchkblkdma_3] ORA-600 [3020] RAC diagnostic/fix to avoid a block being modified in Shared Mode and prevent corruption	14/Jan/2014

Upgrade Issues

Bug/Doc	Fixed in PSU/Bundle	Description	Updated
17501491	11.2.0.4.1	ODM API version is not correct for odm_mkdir call in 11.2.0.4	14/Jan/2014

Notable fixes included in 11.2.0.4

This section lists fixes / enhancements in 11.2.0.4 which may cause a notable change in behaviour.

13543207	Allow Partial Filter push down on UNION ALL View - superseded
13502700	OS audit file naming algorithm can be slow

Issues introduced in 11.2.0.4

This section lists bugs introduced in 11.2.0.4 (if any). Such issues may be either serious or trivial but the aim is to list them all to help customers assess the risk of applying the Patch Set on top of 11.2.0.3

Bug/Doc	Fixed in PSU/Bundle	Description	Updated
18018515		High CPU in qctHasFakeBind (can cause ‘cursor: pin S wait on X‘ waits)	13/Jan/2014
17564992		Wrong results with fix for bug 12999577 present	28/Oct/2013
17501296		ORA-604 / PLS-306 attempting to delete rows from table with Text index after upgrade to 11.2.0.4	16/Dec/2013
17397545		ORA-600 [kdtigetrow-2] from MERGE statement with LOG ERRORS INTO	14/Jan/2014
17328159		ORA-600 [16609] with fix for bug 13622515 present	28/Nov/2013
17325413		Drop column with DEFAULT value and NOT NULL definition ends up with dropped column data hitting disk leading to corruption	09/Dec/2013
17289787		ORA-600 [qeshQBNextPiece.1] from GROUP BY	14/Jan/2014
17158897P		Linux x86-64: Slow read performance with direct NFS	25/Nov/2013
16199543		Incorrect WSDL generated forDBMS_XDB.EXISTRESOUCE	16/Dec/2013
17437634	11.2.0.4.BP03	ORA-1578 or ORA-600 [6856] transient in-memory corruption on TEMP segment during transaction recovery / ROLLBACK (eg: after Ctrl-C)	14/Jan/2014
16180763	11.2.0.4.BP03	ORA-600 [pmuocons#9: unhandled type] in PLSQL with user defined objects	14/Jan/2014
17614227	11.2.0.4.BP02	Exadata ASM rebalance takes a long time after flash failure / cell reboot	14/Jan/2014
17443671	11.2.0.4.1	Exadata block repair may invalidate cache lines	14/Jan/2014

11.2.0.4 Availability

The following 11.2.0.4 Patch Sets are currently available.
Note that any "Latest Readme" links here point to the latest Patch Set Notes for each platform which may contain information which is more recent than the Patch Set Notes downloaded with the Patch Set itself. Platform specific install / upgrade issues are listed under each heading but also see above for GENERIC issues.

For unlisted platforms check Note:742060.1 for the Release Schedule.

In the table clicking on the hyperlinks beginning with "Patch" should take you directly to the relevant patch download page, clicking on the "ReadMe" link should take you directly to the latest version of the ReadMe for the Patch Set, and clicking on "Certification" shows certification information for the platform.

HP-UX PA-RISC 32-bit Client			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 03-JAN-2014		ReadMe
HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit Oracle)			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 03-JAN-2014		ReadMe
HPUX Itanium 32-bit Client			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 10-OCT-2013		ReadMe
HPUX Itanium 64-bit			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 10-OCT-2013		ReadMe
IBM AIX Based Systems 32-bit Client			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 10-OCT-2013		ReadMe
IBM AIX Based Systems (64-bit)			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 10-OCT-2013		ReadMe
IBM Linux on System z (32-bit client)
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 09-JAN-2014		ReadMe
IBM Linux on System z (64-bit)			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 09-JAN-2014		ReadMe
Linux			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 28-AUG-2013		ReadMe
Linux x86-64			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 27-AUG-2013		ReadMe
	17158897P Linux x86-64: Slow read performance with direct NFS
Oracle Solaris on x86 32-bit Client
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 29-AUG-2013		ReadMe
Oracle Solaris on x86-64			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 29-AUG-2013		ReadMe
Oracle Solaris on Sparc 32-bit Client			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 29-AUG-2013		ReadMe
Oracle Solaris on Sparc 64-bit			Certification
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 29-AUG-2013		ReadMe
Windows 32-bit			Certification
11.X	? Server Patches on Microsoft Platforms Note:161549.1
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 26-OCT-2013		ReadMe
Windows 64-bit (x86-64)			Certification
11.X	? Server Patches on Microsoft Platforms Note:161549.1
11.2.0.4	Patch 13390677released 26-OCT-2013		ReadMe

Symbols used in this document

In the lists above

• ‘*‘ indicates that an alert exists for that issue.
• ‘+‘ indicates a particularly notable issue / bug.
• ‘I‘ indicates an install issue / bug included for completeness.
• ‘P‘ indicates a port specific bug.
• Fixed versions use "BPnn" to indicate Exadata bundlenn.
• "OERI:xxxx" may be used as shorthand for ORA-600 [xxxx].

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