Getting ORA-06502 When Running Gather_Table_Stats Even After Applying Patch 23751765 (Doc ID 2474000.1)

Last updated on JUNE 05, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

• When running the dbms_stats without METHOD_OPTS, getting the following:
  SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname =>'ABC', tabname =>'DEF');
  BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname =>'ABC', tabname =>'DEF',ESTIMATE_PERCENT => 35); END;

  *
  ERROR at line 1:
  ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
  ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 34634
  ORA-06512: at line 1

   

• Works fine with METHOD_OPT=>'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 1':
  exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname =>'ABC', tabname =>'DEF', METHOD_OPT=>'FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 1');
    
  

• Have already implemented the Patch for Bug 23751765
  <Document 2262285.1> ORA-06502 Error Gathering Statistics on a Partitioned Table 
    

Cause

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