Can I flush the shared pool of all RAC Instances in an Active DataGuard?

That's a good question.

And the answer is simple: Yes, but NO!

Well, ok; that's not very helpful. But whenever is anything simple in modern IT?

So I'll show why Yes, it's possible:

first as SYS create a dummy user without special permissions and a function to drop the shared pool:

create user berx identified by xxx;
grant connect to berx;
grant select on v_$instance to berx;

create or replace function sys.flush_shared_pool_bx return varchar2
as
begin
        execute immediate 'alter system flush shared_pool';
  return 'Flush_Shared_Pool executed on ' || sysdate || ' by ' || sys_context('USERENV', 'SESSION_USER');

end;
/
grant execute on sys.flush_shared_pool_bx  to public;

SELECT * FROM TABLE(gv$(CURSOR(
  SELECT INSTANCE_NUMBER, sys.flush_shared_pool_bx flush_result
  FROM v$instance)));  

Unfortunately I can not use the gv$ function as user berx directly.

So a view does the trick:

create view v_flush_shared_pool_bx
as 
SELECT * FROM TABLE(gv$(CURSOR(
  SELECT INSTANCE_NUMBER, sys.flush_shared_pool_bx flush_result
  FROM v$instance))); 

grant select on v_flush_shared_pool_bx to public;

create or replace
function f_gv_flush
return DBMS_DEBUG_VC2COLL
PIPELINED 
IS
  res varchar2(120);
   cursor c1 is
     SELECT INSTANCE_NUMBER || ' - ' || FLUSH_RESULT as in_result
 FROM TABLE(gv$(CURSOR(
  SELECT INSTANCE_NUMBER, sys.flush_shared_pool_bx flush_result
  FROM v$instance)));
begin
  FOR res_row in c1
  LOOP
      pipe row (to_char(res_row.in_result)) ;
  END LOOP;
  return;
end;
/

and now it's so simple to flush on all instances:

connect berx/

select * from sys.v_flush_shared_pool_bx;

INSTANCE_NUMBER FLUSH_RESULT
--------------- --------------------------------------------------
              1 Flush_Shared_Pool executed on 10-APR-17 by BERX
              3 Flush_Shared_Pool executed on 10-APR-17 by BERX
              2 Flush_Shared_Pool executed on 10-APR-17 by BERX

or

select * from table(sys.f_gv_flush);

COLUMN_VALUE
-----------------------------------------------------
1 - Flush_Shared_Pool executed on 10-APR-17 by BERX
2 - Flush_Shared_Pool executed on 10-APR-17 by BERX
3 - Flush_Shared_Pool executed on 10-APR-17 by BERX

So obviously the answer if I an flush shared pool in all RAC instances - even in Active DataGuard is: Yes.

But at the same time the answer is NO, as I'm using the gv$ function - and this is not documented, so it's not wise to use it.

If it was not about an Active DataGuard, I'd use a scheduler job to run the flush shared_pool on all instances, but as the ADG is read only, I can't use it.

If you have another idea, how to do this (only with oracle means, no cronjob or similar), please let me know!