How to fix the Oracle error ORA-03231: the INITIAL extent may not be deallocated?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-03231: the INITIAL extent may not be deallocated with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-03231: the INITIAL extent may not be deallocated

Reason for the Error ORA-03231: the INITIAL extent may not be deallocated

Attempt to deallocate space from the segment which was truncated prior to the 7.3 release.

How to fix the Error ORA-03231: the INITIAL extent may not be deallocated ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

increase the KEEP amount, or truncate the segment, and reissue the command.