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ORA-38818: Illegal Reference To Editioned Object When Creating Materialized View (Doc ID 1556379.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Create mview gives the following error when the mview definition query refers to editioned function:

ORA-38818: illegal reference to editioned object %.%

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