Problem creating view on v$mystat

Question

Hello
I'm trying to create a view on top of v$mystat, it's for the runstats package provided by Tom Kyte. When I try to create the view (or any view) on v$mystats, on oracle 8.1.7 i get:
SQL> desc v$mystat
Name                                      Null?    Type
SID                                                NUMBER
STATISTIC#                                         NUMBER
VALUE                                              NUMBER
SQL> create view dt_test_stats as select * from v$mystat;
create view dt_test_stats as select * from v$mystat
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
SQL> select count(*) from v$mystat
  2  /
  COUNT(*)
       211On 10.1.0.2 on windows I get ORA-01031 insufficient privileges. From the docs on 10g for this error:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
    Cause: An attempt was made to change the current username or password without the appropriate privilege. This error also occurs if attempting to install a database without the necessary operating system privileges. When Trusted Oracle is configure in DBMS MAC, this error may occur if the user was granted the necessary privilege at a higher label than the current login.
    Action: Ask the database administrator to perform the operation or grant the required privileges. For Trusted Oracle users getting this error although granted the the appropriate privilege at a higher label, ask the database administrator to regrant the privilege at the appropriate label.I'm not really sure where to go from here, I connected as sys and attempted to grant select on this table to the user creating the view, but got an error(sorry, I didn't get the number) saying that you can only select from fixed tables. I tried creating the view logged in a sys which gave the same 1031 error.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
David

Answer 1

grant select on sys.v_$mystat to scott;
create view dt_test_stats as select * from v$mystat;