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DROP PARTITION Fails With ORA-29919, ORA-20000, DRG-50857, ORA-14552: cannot perform a DDL, commit or rollback inside a query or DML (Doc ID 3079554.1)

Last updated on MARCH 31, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Text - Version 19.22.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 19.22.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Exadata Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

 

Dropping a partition of a table with a local partitioned SEARCH INDEX with SYNC EVERY fails with errors:

 

The issue does not occur if the index is SYNC ON COMMIT.

Changes

 

Cause

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