How to fix the Oracle error ORA-16236: Logical Standby metadata operation in progress?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-16236: Logical Standby metadata operation in progress with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-16236: Logical Standby metadata operation in progress

Reason for the Error ORA-16236: Logical Standby metadata operation in progress

The requested operation failed because an incompatible Logical Standby metadata operation such as DBMS_LOGSTDBY.SET_TABLESPACE, DBMS_LOGSTDBY.APPLY_SET or DBMS_LOGSTDBY.INSTANTIATE_TABLE was still running.

How to fix the Error ORA-16236: Logical Standby metadata operation in progress ?

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

Wait for the incompatible Logical Standby metadata operation to finish, then reenter or respecify the operation.