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ORA-16002 Reported While Opening a Pluggable Database To Read Only Mode (Doc ID 2410706.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 30, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

On  a RAC CDB and RAC PDB

SQL> alter pluggable database pdb1 close immediate;

Pluggable database altered.

select name,open_mode from v$pdbs;

NAME          OPEN_MODE
------------------------------ ----------
PDB$SEED    READ ONLY
PDB1            MOUNTED

SQL> ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1 open read only;
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb1 open read only
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-16002: database or pluggable database already open for read/write access by
another instance





Changes

 

Cause

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