V$PATCHES

V$PATCHES shows the patches applied on an Oracle ASM instance and the list of patches applied to an Oracle Grid infrastructure home directory.

Note:

If this view is queried in an RDBMS instance, no patch information is returned.

Column Datatype Description

PATCH_ID

NUMBER

Patch identifier

CON_ID

NUMBER

The ID of the container to which the data pertains. Possible values include:

  • 0: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to the entire CDB. This value is also used for rows in non-CDBs.

  • 1: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to only the root

  • n: Where n is the applicable container ID for the rows containing data

See Also:

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide for Linux for information about applying Oracle ASM one-off patches.