Constraint in Materialized View misbehave

Question

Enviroment
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
s.o : windows 7. on laptop Intel core i7.
create table product_type
( product_type_id varchar2(3) constraint product_type_pk primary key,
product_type_name varchar2(100) constraint product_type_name_nn not null,
move_inv varchar2(1) default 'Y' constraint product_type_move_inv_nn not null,
generate_abc varchar2(1) default 'N' constraint product_type_generate_abc_nn not null,
constraint product_type_move_inv_check check (move_inv in ('Y','N')),
constraint product_type_gen_abc_check check (generate_abc in ('Y','N'))
create table product_class
( product_type_id varchar2(3) constraint product_class_type_id_nn not null,
product_class_id varchar2(3) constraint product_class_id_nn not null,
product_class_name varchar2(50) constraint product_class_name_nn not null,
inv_negative varchar2(1) default 'N' constraint product_class_inv_negative_nn not null,
constraint product_class_pk primary key (product_type_id,product_class_id),
constraint product_class_by_product_type foreign key (product_type_id) references product_type(product_type_id),
constraint product_class_inv_negative_chk check (inv_negative in ('Y','N'))
create materialized view log on product_type with rowid, primary key , sequence (move_inv) including new values;
create materialized view log on product_class with rowid, primary key , sequence (inv_negative) including new values;
create materialized view prd_type_val_prd_class
refresh fast on commit as
select count(*) tot_rows
from product_type pt
join product_class pc
on ( pt.product_type_id = pc.product_type_id )
where pt.move_inv = 'N' and pc.inv_negative = 'Y';
alter table prd_type_val_prd_class add constraint rows_in_prd_type_val_prd_class check( tot_rows < 1 );
-- sentence 1, expected to works
insert into product_type values('SAR','FARMA','N','N');
commit; --- WORKS fine.
-- sentence 2, expected to works
insert into product_class values('SAR','LIQ','LIQUID' ,'N');
commit; --- WORKS fine
-- sentence 3, expected to fail due materialized view constraint
insert into product_class values('SAR','CAP','CAPSULES','Y');
commit; ---> SHOW the materialized view constraint Error FINE!!!!!!
update product_type set move_inv = 'Y'; -- Update product type to allow sentence 3 to be ok
commit; ---> works fine
--- Re execute sentence 3 ----> success FINE!
---sentence 4, WORKS unexpected. --- it suppose to show the error, due materialized view constraint as did in sentence 3 (first try)
update product_type set move_inv = 'N';
commit; --- WORKS :( since this point ON the materialized view constraint error is show no More.... :(
insert into product_class values('SAR','TAB','TABLETS','Y');
commit;
insert into product_class values('SAR','ABC','ABCZXY','Y');
commit;
select count(*) tot_rows
from product_type pt
join product_class pc
on ( pt.product_type_id = pc.product_type_id )
where pt.move_inv = 'N' and pc.inv_negative = 'Y';
tot_rows
3
Any Idea why is this not working as expected??? maybe I'm missing something or is this a glitch???? hope is not.
thank you

Answer 1

luis,
I don't understand why your mv failed, but I tried it in a way I would do it, using an empty MV rather than one with a single rwos with 0 in it. i.e.:
create materialized view prd_type_val_prd_class
refresh fast on commit
as
select pt.product_type_id
      ,pc.product_type_id pc_bc_product_type_id
      ,pc.product_class_id
      ,pc.rowid pc_row_id
      ,pt.rowid pt_row_id
from product_type pt
   , product_class pc
where pt.bc_product_type_id = pc.bc_product_type_id
AND  pt.move_inv = 'N' and pc.inv_negative = 'Y';and changed the constraint to keep it empty:
alter table prd_type_val_prd_class add constraint rows_in_prd_type_val_prd_class check(1=0);Is it seemed to pass all your tests