Sys.deferror : invalid ...

Question

Hi all,
I am doing replication for my Oracle 10g r2 server. while installing on one of the servers i ran the catrep.sql which told some views erronous. one such view is sys.deferror. Now when i watch the definition of the view it refers to a table which is not existing. Now i want to know that is there some package needed to install explicitly for replication to activate or its there by default ?
I read a lots of replication docs .... we have some preexisting scripts that we ran on 8.1.7 earlier . now we are having 10g. So replication needs to be setup on it ........ but the deferror view is showing errors ... even recompiling also didn't work ....
Any help is appreciated
-Ankur

Answer 1

I manually created my DB....Did you run CATALOG.SQL and CATPROC.SQL scripts after you created the database?
This is the o/p of the query u told ....
OWNER TABLE_NAME STATUS
SYSTEM DEF$_TEMP$LOB VALID
SYSTEM DEF$_PUSHED_TRANSACTIONS VALID
SYSTEM DEF$_PROPAGATOR VALID
SYSTEM DEF$_LOB VALID
SYSTEM DEF$_AQERROR VALID
SYSTEM DEF$_AQCALL VALIDThere are five more objects missing:
SYSTEM.DEF$_ORIGIN
SYSTEM.DEF$_ERROR
SYSTEM.DEF$_DESTINATION
SYSTEM.DEF$_DEFAULTDEST
SYSTEM.DEF$_CALLDEST
These tables are created by catdefrt.sql script located in <ORACLE_HOME>/rdbms/admin directory. This script is invoked by catdefer.sql which is invoked by catproc.sql.
Therefore you either didn’t run catproc.sql after you created the database, or you ran it, but it didn’t go well.
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If you haven’t ran CATPROC.SQL yet, you have to make sure you run this script. This script invokes CATREP.SQL. The same applies for CATALOG.SQL (run it before CATPROC.SQL).
If you are sure you have ran CATALOG.SQL and CATPROC.SQL after you created the database, you may just run CATDEFER.SQL followed by CATREP.SQL
Before you do anything, you have to answer the following questions and be aware of some restrictions:
Is this database your production database?
If yes, then if you decide to run CATPROC.SQL, you have to do it very carefully.
Also it is important to know that running catproc will require some downtime because no users should be connected to the database while running the script. (the best way to ensure that no one is connected is to start the database in restricted mode)
Again, if we are talking about production system here, you have to think about database availability.
If this is not your production database, than you just have to make sure no other users are connected to the database when you run the script.
In any case, make sure you run each of the scripts connected as SYS.
If you haven’t ran CATALOG.SQL neither, you make sure you run it before you run CATPROC.SQL
These scripts are essential to build Data Dictionary Views after the database has been created manually.
For more info refer to http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/create.htm#sthref254
Once you make sure CATALOG.SQL and CATPROC.SQL scripts ran correctly, that should be enough since CATPROC.SQL invokes CATREP.SQL (starting from 9i).
During the execution, you may get errors that many of the objects already exist, which can be ignored.
Once you have all of the scripts ran, you have to run UTLRP.SQL script to recompile the invalid objects, if any.
All of the scripts I mentioned are located in <ORACLE_HOME>/rdbms/admin directory.
And again, if the database is the production one, make sure you know what you are doing, otherwise ask some experienced DBA for help, or contact Oracle Support (Metalink) and of course read the docs.
--Mihajlo