How to fix the Oracle error ORA-22280: no more buffers available for operation?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-22280: no more buffers available for operation with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-22280: no more buffers available for operation

Reason for the Error ORA-22280: no more buffers available for operation

There are two causes: (1) All buffers in the buffer pool have been used up by previous operations (2) Attempt to flush a LOB without any previous buffered update operations.

How to fix the Error ORA-22280: no more buffers available for operation ?

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

For (1), flush the LOB(s) through the locator that is being used to update the LOB. For (2), write to the LOB through a locator enabled for buffering before attempting to flush buffers.