How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16171: RECOVER…FINISH not allowed due to gap for thr string, seq string-string?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16171: RECOVER…FINISH not allowed due to gap for thr string, seq string-string with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16171: RECOVER…FINISH not allowed due to gap for thr string, seq string-string

Reason for the Error ORA-16171: RECOVER…FINISH not allowed due to gap for thr string, seq string-string

See alert log for more details

How to fix the Error ORA-16171: RECOVER…FINISH not allowed due to gap for thr string, seq string-string ?

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

Copy missing archived logs from primary or another standby. Register the logs and reissue the RECOVER…FINISH command. If the logs are not available, issue the ALTER DATABASE RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY SKIP command to ignore the standby redo log files.