Upgrade Issues - DST related - There must not be any Daylight Savings Time (DST) update operations pending in the database before starting the upgrade process (Doc ID 2878215.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Planning to upgrade from 12.1 to 19c, but we DST related errors:

 SQL> SELECT version FROM v$timezone_file;

  VERSION
----------
  18

SQL> SELECT PROPERTY_NAME, SUBSTR(property_value, 1, 30) value
FROM DATABASE_PROPERTIES
WHERE PROPERTY_NAME LIKE 'DST_%'
ORDER BY PROPERTY_NAME; 

PROPERTY_NAME                         VALUE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DST_PRIMARY_TT_VERSION         18
DST_SECONDARY_TT_VERSION    14
DST_UPGRADE_STATE                  DATAPUMP(20)   <----------------

There must not be any Daylight Savings Time (DST) update operations pending in the database before starting the upgrade process.

Changes

 Attempting to upgrade 19c.

Cause

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