post/wait driver?

[John D. Reaney]

I have a client who wants to explore the possibility of using a post/wait driver instead of semaphores for an oracle 8.i database. This is running in a serviceguard cluster on some v-class servers (hpux 11.00). I have been unable to find any information about a post/wait driver.

Have any of you used this method?

How do you do it?

Where can I find information about it?

Is it worth the trouble to do it?

Thanks to everyone. John

[Dave Kelly_1]

I did a search and found:

http://oradoc.photo.net/ora81/DOC/server.815/a67774/miginito.htm

This states:

The following initialization parameters became obsolete in release 8.0 and cannot be used in release 8.0 and higher:


USE_POST_WAIT_DRIVER


Note:
An attempt to start any release 8.0 or higher database using one or more of the these obsolete initialization parameters will result in an error, and the database will not start.



I'd say that you can't use post/wait.