Unbreakable 9i... BROKEN

Question

I can create spatial indices on any other table.. why not this one?:
-- begin script
DROP INDEX GIS_QC.IDXSR_CS_OBJ_P;
CREATE INDEX GIS_QC.IDXSR_CS_OBJ_P
ON GIS_QC.CASE_OBJECT_POLYGON("GEOM")
INDEXTYPE IS MDSYS.SPATIAL_INDEX
PARAMETERS ('layer_gtype=POLYGON sdo_level=0, sdo_numtiles=0 TABLESPACE=GIS_QC_INDEX');
-- end script
-- begin output
DROP INDEX GIS_QC.IDXSR_CS_OBJ_P
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-29856: error occurred in the execution of ODCIINDEXDROP routine
ORA-13249: Error in Spatial index: cannot drop sequence GIS_QC.MDRS_F543$
ORA-13249: Stmt-Execute Failure: DROP SEQUENCE GIS_QC.MDRS_F543$
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
ORA-02289: sequence does not exist
ORA-06512: at "MDSYS.SDO_INDEX_METHOD_9I", line 7
ORA-06512: at line 1
-- end output
Richard Clement
Alaska DNR

Answer 1

Hello Richard,
Could someone have manually deleted the sequence associated with the index?
In any case, try doing a
drop index indexname force;
this should clean up all metadata associated with the index and work through the errors.
I'm a bit confused though - are you having trouble creating the index or dropping it?