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Inserting into Table with XMLINDEX Causes Intermittent ORA-29861 (Doc ID 1404559.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 30, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Inserting into table which has an XMLIndex sometimes causes below error-

ORA-29861: domain index is marked LOADING/FAILED/UNUSABLE.

This has been seen to happen when there is a Gather Stats job running at the same time when the DML is happening on this table.

At the time of the error index will be in INPROGRS state, e.g. -

SQL> select index_name, index_type, ityp_name, status from dba_indexes where status!='VALID';
.
INDEX_NAME INDEX_TYPE
------------------------------ ---------------------------
ITYP_NAME STATUS
------------------------------ --------
ORD_ORDER_CUST_DATA_VIRT_IDX FUNCTION-BASED DOMAIN
XMLINDEX INPROGRS

Rebuilding index does not fix the index when it reaches this state. Only solution in this scenario is to manually recreate it.

Cause

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