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Cannot Drop Tablespace Thats Empty -- ORA-00604 ORA-02429: cannot drop index used for enforcement of unique/primary key (Doc ID 3076676.1)

Last updated on MARCH 16, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 19.25.0.0.0 and later
Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer X7 Hardware - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A to N/A
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Unable to drop empty tablespace

drop tablespace <tablespace_name> including contents and datafiles
Error report -
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-02429: cannot drop index used for enforcement of unique/primary key

 

Changes

 NA

Cause

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