I’ve had some interesting discussions with Anil Nair, our RAC Product Manager and a customer in the past days. The customer was looking for a definite statement that they can have a higher version of Patch Set Updates (PSUs) or Proactive Bundle Patches (BPs) in the Database homes than in the Grid Infrastructure home managing the resources.
For Oracle Database 18c, 19c and onward, please read instead:
Can you have different PSU/BP versions between Database and GI homes?
Yes, you can have a higher version PSU …
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