32-bit oracle 10g client to 64-bit oracle 10g server

Due to a 3rd party application's requirement, I may be forced to use 32-bit client of Oracle 10gR2 on the application server to connect to a 64-bit DB server oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit;another box). The OS is SUSE Linux ver 10. Platform is x86. There are no problems connecting to 64-bit DB server via 32-bit client. I have tested this.

• Does this result in performance degradation? Does Oracle or anyone else has a开发者_如何学Gony recommendations about this kind of scenario? Searched the net without much gain.

Please help. Thanks.

It is not a problem at all in Oracle, the client works fine with any server (32-bit or 64-bit or big-endian or little-endian, whatever). What makes you worry? We aren't in 90s anymore ;)