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ORA-01552 Error Creating a Rollback Segment in a Locally-Managed Tablespace (Doc ID 112479.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 08, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.5.0 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

When you create a rollback segment in a locally-managed tablespace and only
one rollback segment exists in the database, you receive the following error:

SQL> CREATE ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs0
2 TABLESPACE local_rbs
3 STORAGE (INITIAL 100k NEXT 100k MINEXTENTS 2);
CREATE ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs0
*
ERROR at line 1: ORA-01552: cannot use system rollback segment for non-system tablespace 'LOCAL_RBS'

Cause

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