RE: Curious: ORA-02001

I'll guess the same and say "ITS ABOUT TIME!"

How simple would it have been for Oracle to enforce this in the past! I think it's a great idea!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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ok i'll guess, so newbies dont shoot themselves in the foot? :)

joe
Brian McGraw wrote:
>
> Disclaimer: This is more of a 'yeah, but why?' type of question.
> You've been forewarned.
>
> Today I was building out a test schema, and had connected as the SYS
> user to do so. The testing has to do with using different FREELIST /
> FREELIST GROUPS values. After creating my table, I was executing the
> following create index statement:
>
> ALTER TABLE "INQUIRY"."TSR_DETAILS"
> ADD CONSTRAINT "TSR_PK" PRIMARY KEY
> ("POLICY_NUMBER", "POLICY_SUFFIX", "ENTRY_DATE")
> USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255
> STORAGE(INITIAL 1m next 1m minextents 1 maxextents unlimited
> pctincrease 0 freelists 4 freelist groups 2)
> TABLESPACE "INQUIRY_INDEX" ENABLE ;
>
> I got the following error, which I had never seen before:
>
> ERROR at line 5:
> ORA-02001: user SYS is not permitted to create indexes with
> freelist groups
>
> Metalink had the following to say:
>
> Error: ORA 2001
> Text: user SYS is not permitted to create indexes with freelist
> groups
>
>

---


> 

>     Cause:  user tried to create an index with freelist groups while

>             running with SYS authorization.

>     Action: Either do not create the index, do not use freelist groups

> or

>             switch to USER authorization.

> 

>     Support Notes:

>       You should not be creating indexes as SYS without a specific

> reason.

> 

> Of course, I connected as my user and finished building out the

> schema.

> 

> But now I'm curious - does anybody know why Oracle advises that you

> not create indexes as SYS?  I always assumed that as long as tables

> were properly prefixed with an owner, you could build out schemas

> connected as SYS or SYSTEM.

> 

> Brian

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