ORA-00904: "PURGE_OBJECT" when opening 'Functions' leaf

Question

When I'm connected to some databases and try to open the 'Functions' leaf (or 'Procedures', 'Indexes'... but it works fine with 'Tables') I get an ORA-00904: "PURGE_OBJECT" error. It happens also when I try 'Create FUNCTION'. This does not occur with all connected databases, but can happen even when the DB has version 10.2. I have the freshly updated sqldeveloper on Windows.
The exception stack trace is:
oracle.jdeveloper.cm.dt.browser.CBBaseFolder$ExceptionWrapper
     at oracle.jdeveloper.cm.dt.browser.CBBaseFolder._loadChildren(CBBaseFolder.java:288)
     at oracle.jdeveloper.cm.dt.browser.CBBaseFolder.refresh(CBBaseFolder.java:205)
     at oracle.jdevimpl.cm.dt.ConnectionController._refreshFolderCmd(ConnectionController.java:678)
     at oracle.jdevimpl.cm.dt.ConnectionController.refreshNode(ConnectionController.java:302)
     at oracle.jdevimpl.cm.dt.ConnectionController.handleEvent(ConnectionController.java:269)
     at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.performAction(IdeAction.java:530)
     at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction$1.run(IdeAction.java:785)
     at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.actionPerformedImpl(IdeAction.java:804)
     at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.actionPerformed(IdeAction.java:499)
     at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1849)
     at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2169)
     at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
     at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
     at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:302)
     at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1000)
     at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:1041)
     at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
     at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
     at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
     at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
     at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
     at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
     at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212)
     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
     at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
     at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
     at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1774)
     at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
     at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
     at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
Caused by: oracle.jdeveloper.cm.CMException: ORA-00904: "PURGE_OBJECT": ungültiger Bezeichner
     at oracle.jdeveloper.cm.dt.browser.jdbc.ObjectFolder.getObjects(ObjectFolder.java:100)
     at oracle.jdeveloper.cm.dt.browser.jdbc.ObjectFolder.getChildrenList(ObjectFolder.java:147)
     at oracle.jdeveloper.cm.dt.browser.CBBaseFolder$1.doWork(CBBaseFolder.java:241)
     at oracle.ide.dialogs.ProgressRunnable.run(ProgressRunnable.java:159)
     at oracle.ide.dialogs.ProgressBar.run(ProgressBar.java:553)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I suppose your schema owner does contain a regular TABLE which is called RECYCLEBIN but does not contain a PURGE_OBJECT column
TEST CASE
SQL> grant dba to JOHNY identified by JOHNY;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> create table JOHNY.RECYCLEBIN as select * from dual;
Table created.try to login as johny/johny in sql/developer
than expand your VIEWS and you will get that error
An error was encountered when performing the requested operation:
ORA-00904: "PURGE_OBJECT" invalid identifier
Vendor Code 904
this is because sql/developer relies on the public synonym not on the user_recyclebin sys view
SQL> connect johny/johny
Connected.
SQL> desc recyclebin
Name                                      Null?    Type
DUMMY                                              VARCHAR2(1)
SQL> select * from dba_synonyms where synonym_name='RECYCLEBIN';
OWNER                          SYNONYM_NAME
TABLE_OWNER                    TABLE_NAME
DB_LINK
PUBLIC                         RECYCLEBIN
SYS                            USER_RECYCLEBIN
SQL> desc sys.user_recyclebin
Name                                      Null?    Type
OBJECT_NAME                               NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
ORIGINAL_NAME                                      VARCHAR2(32)
OPERATION                                          VARCHAR2(9)
TYPE                                               VARCHAR2(25)
TS_NAME                                            VARCHAR2(30)
CREATETIME                                         VARCHAR2(19)
DROPTIME                                           VARCHAR2(19)
DROPSCN                                            NUMBER
PARTITION_NAME                                     VARCHAR2(32)
CAN_UNDROP                                         VARCHAR2(3)
CAN_PURGE                                          VARCHAR2(3)
RELATED                                   NOT NULL NUMBER
BASE_OBJECT                               NOT NULL NUMBER
PURGE_OBJECT                              NOT NULL NUMBER
SPACE                                              NUMBERUntil this bug is fixed, I would rather chose another user to connect
HTH
Laurent
Message was edited by:
Laurent Schneider
SQL> select KEYWORD,RESERVED from v$reserved_words where keyword='RECYCLEBIN';
KEYWORD    R
RECYCLEBIN Nsince RECYCLEBIN is not a reserved, it is a legal name for your table, so the bug should be fixed one day...