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ORA-14646 with using bitmap indexes on partitioned compressed tables (Doc ID 256236.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.3 and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 9.2.0.3
This problem can occur on any platform.

Symptoms

See the testcase below:

drop table test
/
create table test (n number) partition by range (n)
(partition p0 values less than (0) compress
,partition p1 values less than (1) nocompress)
compress
/
create bitmap index bm_test_n on test(n) local
/
drop table temp
/
create table temp (n number)
/
create bitmap index bm_temp on temp(n)
/
alter table test add partition p2 values less than (2)
/
alter table test exchange partition p2 with table temp including
indexes
/
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-14646: Specified alter table operation involving compression cannot be performed in the presence

Cause

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