I wanna preface this by saying that I have 0 oracle database knowledge and right now I am facing the following issue:
At my job we used to build custom oracle db docker images using rpm files and creating the listener.ora
files ourselves in a sort of legacy system. An example of the old config is this for the oracle database 19 version:
DEFAULT_SERVICE_LISTENER = ORCLCDB
LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 0.0.0.0)(PORT = 1521))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1521))
)
)
SID_LIST_LISTENER=
(SID_LIST=
(SID_DESC=
(SID_NAME=ORCLCDB)
(ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/19c/dbhome_1)
(PROGRAM=extproc)))
Now I am using the oracle database 23ai FREE and this is what the listener.ora file looks like:
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/23ai/dbhomeFree)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
)
)
LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC_FOR_FREE))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 0.0.0.0)(PORT = 1521))
)
)
DEFAULT_SERVICE_LISTENER = (FREE)
I have tried to understand what the differences are by reading this manual but I am going to be honest, I really dont understand so much the difference. Will using SID_NAME = PLSExtProc
disallow me doing normal database operations? Does anyone know where I could find documented what PLSExtProc
is? Additionally I tried to find what EXTPROC_FOR_FREE
equates to and I am not sure where to look, is this a default environment variable?