Help Creating Types

Question

Hello,
Hopefully I can explain this clearly.
I am using data pump import to bring several source databases into different schemas in one new database. The source databases are extracts at different times from a seperate production database and I am encountering errors as follows -
ORA-39083: Object type TYPE failed to create with error:
ORA-02304: invalid object identifier literal
Failing sql is:
CREATE TYPE "F10BANINST1"."DATE_NT" OID 'DEEC3F961E7C4CB1E0340003BA29B58F' as
table of DATE;
This makes sense as the types existed under one schema in the original database and the OIDs are present as they were imported into the first schema I created. What I need to do is create these types in each of the schemas I have created in the new database. I am not sure how best to do this. Apparently I am not able to do something like the following -
SQL> copy type schema2.TYPE from schema1.TYPE;
What I would like to do is pull the DDL from the source database into a create statement of the form -
SQL> create type schema2.type as.....
and I am not sure how to do this. I need to be certain I get the type body as well. Can someone help me do this please.
Thank you.
Bill Wagman

Answer 1

The OID of the object/collection type must be unique across all schemas. So trying to re-create the type in multiple schemas with the same OID will not work. You will need to choose a new OID for each schema's version of the type.
However, the obvious question is: why not create a single instance of the type, and grant privileges (EXECUTE and UNDER) to use/extend it to the other schemas?
Gerard