ORA-13223: duplicate entry for string in SDO_GEOM_METADATA table and

Question

I got the above error while trying to insert a record into the table SDO_GEOM_METADATA. However, when querying this table I did find any duplicate table_name, column_name pair that match with the error.
Here are the steps that I worked on:
1. Add a geometry column into an existing table.
ALTER TABLE GEO_MAP ADD (ORG_GEOM mdsys.sdo_geometry);
2. Register the new column into mdsys
insert into USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA
values ('GEO_MAP','ORG_GEOM',
mdsys.sdo_dim_array(
mdsys.sdo_dim_element('LONG',-180,180,0.00005),
mdsys.sdo_dim_element('LAT',-90,90,0.00005)
8307)
I got the error ORA-13223: duplicate entry for string in SDO_GEOM_METADATA table even there was no such record in there.
3. I inserted values in the column ORG_GEOM fine.
4. However, when I tried to create the index for this column I got the error:
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-13203: failed to read USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA view
ORA-13203: failed to read
Please help.
Thanks.

Answer 1

SQL> select * from mdsys.sdo_geom_metadata_table;
SDO_OWNER SDO_TABLE_NAME
SDO_COLUMN_NAME
SDO_DIMINFO(SDO_DIMNAME, SDO_LB, SDO_UB, SDO_TOLERANCE)
SDO_SRID
QW_USER1 GEO_REF
LOC_GEOM
SDO_DIM_ARRAY(SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('LONG', -180, 180, .00005), SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('LAT',
-90, 90, .00005))
SDO_OWNER SDO_TABLE_NAME
SDO_COLUMN_NAME
SDO_DIMINFO(SDO_DIMNAME, SDO_LB, SDO_UB, SDO_TOLERANCE)
SDO_SRID
8307
MDSYS SDO_CMT_CBK_RTREE_TAB
GEOM
SDO_DIM_ARRAY(SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('X', -180, 180, .000000005), SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('Y',
SDO_OWNER SDO_TABLE_NAME
SDO_COLUMN_NAME
SDO_DIMINFO(SDO_DIMNAME, SDO_LB, SDO_UB, SDO_TOLERANCE)
SDO_SRID
-90, 90, .000000005))
The situation is we have 2 tables (GEO_MAP, and GEO_REF) that have spatial columns. Everything worked fine until when one of the queries that searched through the table GEO_MAP ran so slow, we decided to rebuild the related spatial index by dropping and recreating it. However, after I dropped it I could not recreated. Keep getting the error:
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-13203: failed to read USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA view
ORA-13203: failed to read
Any help is very much appreciated.