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ORA-904 Generated When Adding A Partition To A Table (Doc ID 2139382.1)

Last updated on MARCH 10, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.4 and later
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

When an attempt to add a new partition to a table which is partitioned by 'list', error ORA-00904 - 'SYS_’ invalid identifier is generated.

Changes

 One of the columns on the table is a type and customer had 2 new subtypes added in April, one of which contained a clob.

Cause

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