How to fix the Oracle error ORA-22864: cannot ALTER or DROP LOB indexes?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-22864: cannot ALTER or DROP LOB indexes with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-22864: cannot ALTER or DROP LOB indexes

Reason for the Error ORA-22864: cannot ALTER or DROP LOB indexes

An attempt was made to ALTER or DROP a LOB index.

How to fix the Error ORA-22864: cannot ALTER or DROP LOB indexes ?

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

Do not operate directly on the system-defined LOB index. Perform operations on the corresponding LOB column.