Unexpected synonym creation via a materialized view DDL statement

Question

While I was doing some testing for a future materialized view creation I did this...
create materialized view yes as select empno, ename from emp;Oracle created a table called "YES" and a materialized view called "YES".
Then I did this...
create materialized view wow as select empno, ename from emp;Oracle created a table called "WOW" and materialized view called "WOW", and a synonym called "WOW1"...
Eh? Whats up with he synonym called "WOW1"?
SQL*Plus: Release 9.0.1.4.0 -
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 - 64bit

Answer 1

I'm not able to reproduce this. My version is 9.2.0.7.0
my_schema@mydb> create materialized view yes as select employee_id, salary from employees;
Materialized view created.
Elapsed: 00:00:01.00
my_schema@mydb> select object_type, owner, object_name from dba_objects where object_name = 'YES';
OBJECT_TYPE        OWNER                          OBJECT_NAME
MATERIALIZED VIEW  my_schema                        YES
TABLE              my_schema                        YES
Elapsed: 00:00:00.03
my_schema@mydb> create materialized view wow as select employee_id, salary from employees;
Materialized view created.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.04
my_schema@mydb> select object_type, owner, object_name from dba_objects where object_name like 'WOW%';
OBJECT_TYPE        OWNER                          OBJECT_NAME
MATERIALIZED VIEW  my_schema                        WOW
TABLE              my_schema                        WOW