While creating a simple VIEW Error comes ORA-00604,ORA-00001

Question

I am using
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Prod
a simple view statement gives an error.
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00001: unique constraint (SYS.I_COL1) violated
what may be the reason

Answer 1

Hi,
It seems that SHORT_NAME cause problem.
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW V_META_IMAGELIST
  2  AS
  3  SELECT A.SEQ_NUM, A.SHORT_NAME, A.DESCRIPTION, A.MULTISELECT, A.ENTITY_SEQ_NUM, A.SECTION_TYPE_
SEQ_NUM,
  4  B.SHORT_NAME, A.ACTIVE, A.ENTERED_BY,
  5  A.ENTRY_DATE, A.IMAGELIST_LEVEL, A.STARTINGSENTENCE, A.SEPARATOR, A.CONJUNCTION, A.ENDINGSENTEN
CE,
  6  A.META_IMAGELIST_ELEMENT_SEQ_NUM
  7  FROM meta_imagelist A, SECTION_TYPES B
  8  WHERE A.SECTION_TYPE_SEQ_NUM = B.SEQ_NUM(+) ;
B.SHORT_NAME, A.ACTIVE, A.ENTERED_BY,
ERROR at line 4:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-00001: unique constraint (SYS.I_COL1) violated
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
  1  CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW V_META_IMAGELIST
  2  AS
  3  SELECT A.SEQ_NUM, A.SHORT_NAME, A.DESCRIPTION, A.MULTISELECT, A.ENTITY_SEQ_NUM, A.SECTION_TYPE_
  4  B.SHORTNAME, A.ACTIVE, A.ENTERED_BY,
  5  A.ENTRY_DATE, A.IMAGELIST_LEVEL, A.STARTINGSENTENCE, A.SEPARATOR, A.CONJUNCTION, A.ENDINGSENTEN
  6  A.META_IMAGELIST_ELEMENT_SEQ_NUM
  7  FROM meta_imagelist A, SECTION_TYPES B
  8* WHERE A.SECTION_TYPE_SEQ_NUM = B.SEQ_NUM(+)
SQL> /
Warning: View created with compilation errors. --this is because I haven't any tables
SQL> show error
No errors.
SQL> Try to rename SHORT_NAME to an other word.
Nicolas.