Data Pump Import With EXCLUDE=CONSTRAINT Or INCLUDE=CONSTRAINT Is Excluding And Respectively Not Including NOT NULL Constraints (Doc ID 1930631.1)

Last updated on JULY 26, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

After doing a Data Pump import (impdp) in 12.1.0.2 database release with parameter EXCLUDE=CONSTRAINT the NOT NULL constraints from source tables are not in target tables. Sequence of steps leading to the problem:
- Data Pump export of tables with NOT NULL and referential integrity constraints
- Data Pump import with EXCLUDE=CONSTRAINT

For example:

==> In source database a table has the following structure:

Also, if using Data Pump import (impdp) with INCLUDE=CONSTRAINT parameter, NOT NULL constraints are not imported.

Cause

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