How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14009: partition bound may not be specified for a LOCAL index partition?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14009: partition bound may not be specified for a LOCAL index partition with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14009: partition bound may not be specified for a LOCAL index partition

Reason for the Error ORA-14009: partition bound may not be specified for a LOCAL index partition

while parsing a CREATE INDEX statement to create a LOCAL partitioned index, of one of partitions was found to contain VALUES LESS THAN clause which is illegal since a LOCAL index inherits partition bounds from its base table

How to fix the Error ORA-14009: partition bound may not be specified for a LOCAL index partition ?

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

remove all VALUES LESS THAN clauses from descriptions of LOCAL index partitions