Don’t get puzzled by “sqlpatch” messages during Upgrade

During my last Hands-On-Labs in Uruguay and Argentina I’ve had several people wondering about these messages below when running the command line upgrade with catctl.pl:

catctl.pl - sqlpatch

This (and another) message breaks the nicely structured format of the catctl.pl output. And as it ends with an “err” extension it looks to many people as if the upgrade had gotten an error,

But please don’t feel disturbed. It’s just messages from sqlpatch invocation – and the “err” extension is just pointing to an error file in case something has gone wrong.

In a future release such messages will be written to the logfiles only but not to the screen output anymore.

–Mike

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