I meant to blog about this awhile back but I got sidetracked.
Last month, Oracle announced that for Oracle 12c, it would no longer be offering two types of patches every quarter in the Cumulative Patch Update (CPU). Currently for 11g, you can get a Security Patch Update (SPU) which contains just security fixes or the Patch Set Update (PSU) which contains the SPU plus some bug fixes. Starting with Oracle 12c, only the PSU will be available.
Oracle has long recommended that its customers apply the PSU instead of the SPU. However, I have had the opposite opinion. In my production environments, I prefer to introduce as little change as necessary. Applying quarterly security patches is a necessity to keep my production database safe. But if I am not experiencing one of the non-security related bugs in the PSU, why do I need to patch that bug? Additionally, my application may be working fine with one of these bugs and it is possible that fixing the bug breaks my application. Not likely, but possible.
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My opinion, while differing from Oracle’s, does not matter. According to Metalink Note 1581950.1, the SPU will no longer be available from 12c onward. So I’ll have to adjust my patching process.
Cheers,
Brian
