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Execution of DBMS_METADAT.GET_DDL results in ORA-19206,ORA-6512 (Doc ID 292266.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 04, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 9.2.0.8 [Release 9.2]
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database 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
Information in this document applies to any platform.


Symptoms

Execution of dbms_metadata.get_ddl results in ORA-19206,ORA-6512

e.g.
SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('TABLE','TEST') from dual;
ERROR:
ORA-19206: Invalid value for query or REF CURSOR parameter
ORA-6512: at "SYS.DBMS_XMLGEN", line 83
ORA-6512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 345
ORA-6512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 410
ORA-6512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 449
ORA-6512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 615
ORA-6512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1221
ORA-6512: at line 1

Cause

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