Oracle: Does a 10g oracle client work with an 11g server?

Question

This is the reciprocal to this question. Currently, I am trying to use the instant client for Mac, version 10.2. There\'s no 11g version for Mac, as of now, based on this page(y

Answer 1

It should work. I have never had problems with upwards compatiblity of Oracle Client. Test:

myclient{oracle}# sqlplus system@rac11g

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Jun 25 08:44:09 2009

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Enter password:

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP, Data Mining
and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select * from v$version;

BANNER
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Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
CORE    11.1.0.7.0      Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production