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ORA-00904 invalid identifier when dropping generated column

Hello,
I have a table that was created as
CREATE TABLE xxx (
"SHAPE" "SDO_GEOMETRY",
"X_VALUE" NUMBER GENERATED ALWAYS AS ((("MDSYS"."SDO_GEOM"."SDO_POINTONSURFACE"("SHAPE",0.005))."SDO_POINT")."X") VIRTUAL ,
"Y_VALUE" NUMBER GENERATED ALWAYS AS ((("MDSYS"."SDO_GEOM"."SDO_POINTONSURFACE"("SHAPE",0.005))."SDO_POINT")."Y") VIRTUAL)
Both X_VALUE and Y_VALUE columns are created from the SHAPE (SDO_GEOMETRY) column, but when I want to drop them with:
ALTER TABLE xxx DROP (X_VALUE, Y_VALUE)
I get the error "ORA-00904: "MDSYS"."SDO_GEOM"."SDO_POINTONSURFACE": invalid identifier". Am I doing something wrong?
Best Answer
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Thanks for supplying a model to test.
I've run it on 19.11.0.0 with a couple of variations. Obviously having the SHAPE column produces a number of virtual columns, but that doesn't seem to be the critical issue.
It looks like an Oracle bug; I've created a version of the table with some other "real" columns, before, after, and in between your columns, and if I include even one column like the X_VALUE or Y_VALUE I get the same error even when I drop a real, simple column.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
Answers
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Thanks for supplying a model to test.
I've run it on 19.11.0.0 with a couple of variations. Obviously having the SHAPE column produces a number of virtual columns, but that doesn't seem to be the critical issue.
It looks like an Oracle bug; I've created a version of the table with some other "real" columns, before, after, and in between your columns, and if I include even one column like the X_VALUE or Y_VALUE I get the same error even when I drop a real, simple column.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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I've had another look at this - the only workaround I've found is to create functions that hide the complexity, viz:
create or replace function my_x(inshape mdsys.sdo_geometry) return number deterministic as begin return mdsys.sdo_geom.sdo_pointonsurface(inshape,0.005).sdo_point.x; end; / ... x_value number generated always as (my_x(shape)) virtual, ...
with a similar function and definition for y_value.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis