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A Common User is Missing After the Point in Time Recovery of a Pluggable Database (Doc ID 2017687.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 [Release 12.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud 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
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Perform a point in time recovery (PITR) of a pluggable database (PDB), to a point in time when a common user did not exist.

Attempt to alter or drop that common user now fails with ORA-01918:

 

Changes

 

Cause

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