Partition exchange failure
372209Jun 26 2007 — edited Jun 28 2007(Oracle 10g R1 on zLinux) I've got a large partitioned table with some partitions that are almost empty (but still claiming large amounts of blocks). To do some partition exchanging I created a second table that has exactly the same column layout (I used the create script from the large table without the partition directives and I tried a 'create table .. as select * from big-table) without any indexes. Fot the indexes(the plan was to re-create them when the exchanges were done.
Now when I start the partition exchange using:
ALTER TABLE ahd_request
EXCHANGE PARTITION tm2002
WITH TABLE ahd_request_small
I get the message 'ORA-14097: column type or size mismatch in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION'
Any ideas wether or not this is a bug or am I missing something obivous?
tia
Martin