ORA-39779: Type "MDSYS"."SDO_GEOMETRY" Not Found Or Conversion To Latest Version Is Not Possible (Doc ID 1584858.1)

Last updated on JULY 17, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Spatial and Graph - Version 11.2.0.3 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
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Symptoms

Performing an datapump import the following error is returned:

ORA-31693: Table data object "SPATIAL_USER"."COLA_MARKETS" failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
ORA-39779: type "MDSYS"."SDO_GEOMETRY" not found or conversion to latest version is not possible

using TRANSFORM=OID:N during the import does not change the behaviour
the file $ORACLE_HOME/md/admin/sdoupggeom.sql was run on the source database to increase the size of ordinate arrays to support very large geometries. It was not run on the destination database where the dump file is imported.
The definition of SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY is looking like this on the source:

Cause

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ORA-39779: Type "MDSYS"."SDO_GEOMETRY" Not Found Or Conversion To Latest Version Is Not Possible (Doc ID 1584858.1)

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