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Why does DELETE FROM SUBPARTITION Fail?

user12000796Oct 25 2011 — edited Oct 27 2011
Using Oracle 10gR2 RAC +ASM (10.2.0.3) on SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 9 (x86_64).

I've issued the following commands:

DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_1);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_2);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_3);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_4);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_5);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_6);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_7);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_8);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_9);
DELETE FROM TRACE.TBA SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_10);

COMMIT;

SELECT COUNT(1) FROM TRACE.TBA T WHERE T.YEAR = 2007 AND T.PERIOD = 4;

With the following Results (Similar results shown):
0 rows deleted.
0 rows deleted.
75556 rows deleted.
77428 rows deleted.
0 rows deleted.
149160 rows deleted.
156654 rows deleted.
153182 rows deleted.
158502 rows deleted.
Commit complete.

COUNT(1)
----------
75343


1 row selected.

The problem is with SUBPARTITION(YEAR_2007_MONTH_4). This partition won't delete.
I've also experienced this problem with the same table in the another partition.

What could be the problem? Oracle doesn't report any errors.

Thanks,
(BLL)
This post has been answered by 137669 on Oct 26 2011
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