IN 11G, PRECISION RETURNED AS 0 FOR COLUMN ALTERED TO DEFAULT AND NOT NULL (Doc ID 1061007.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

If the table is defined like the following,

create table test(val number(10));

Now, if you alter the column in three different ways:
1. alter table test add (val number(10) default 1);
2. alter table test add (val number(10) not null);
3. alter table test add (val number(10) default 1 not null);

Both scenario 1 AND scenario 2 return the correct precision for the number fields using .
However, using the scenario 3 gives PRECISION = 0.This is incorrect.

These scenario works fine with 10g.
Issue occurs using database version 11g onwards.

Cause

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