Oracle Spatial Error

Question

Hi,
I am getting the following error:
ERROR at line 1:
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 USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA view
ORA-06512: at "MDSYS.SDO_INDEX_METHOD_10I", line 10
SQL> CREATE TABLE table01
  2  (
  3      col01  DECIMAL(10) NOT NULL,
  4      col02  MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY NOT NULL
  5  );
Table created.
SQL>
SQL> CREATE INDEX idx01 ON table01(col01)
  2   INDEXTYPE IS MDSYS.SPATIAL_INDEX PARAMETERS ('SDO_COMMIT_INTERVAL=10000 SDO_RTR_PCTFREE = 0');
CREATE INDEX idx01 ON table01(col01)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29855: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXCREATE routine
ORA-13200: internal error [Unsupported Type] in spatial indexing.
ORA-06512: at "MDSYS.SDO_INDEX_METHOD_10I", line 10
SQL> Here's the version of the sql:
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
CORE    10.2.0.4.0      Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
SQL> Here's the OS:
SQL> select platform_id, platform_name from v$database;
PLATFORM_ID
PLATFORM_NAME
         13
Linux x86 64-bit
SQL>

Answer 1

The first error is because you don't have any spatial metadata. You need to insert into user_sdo_geom_metadata first. See the documentation for examples of how to do this.
The canned example you showed failed because you tried to index col01 rather than col02.