11g

This is a common error message after upgrade of the database: ORA-32004: obsolete or deprecated parameter(s) specified for RDBMS instance In 11g (last tested with 11.2.0.3) even if your start up the database from an old type pfile without any obsolete parameters and then create an spfile from memory like this: create spfile from memory; Oracle will insert two obsolete parameters into the spfile. This query will list obsolete parameters in your spfile: ...

There is a bug in the export utility on version 11.2.0.1 when running against a 11.2.0.2 (and possiby 11.2.0.1) database that has tables without segments. Deferred segment creation was introduced as a smart feature in 11gR2, but this is causing error EXP-00003 when running the old export utility from lower versions. This is reported on MOS for pre-11g clients, but right now I could not find any reports that this is also a problem with the 11.2.0.1 version when this feature was introduced. ...

The only reason to read this post is if you have googled for the error “ORA-00904: “POLTYP”: invalid identifier”. This error occurs if you try the old export command from an 11g client against a database on version 10g or lower. The export command runs a query against a table called EXU9RLS in the SYS schema. On 11g this table was expanded with the column POLTYP and the export command (exp) expects to find this column. This should not be much of a problem since Data Pump export can be used.