How to fix the Oracle error ORA-24814: operation not allowed for temporary LOBs?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-24814: operation not allowed for temporary LOBs with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-24814: operation not allowed for temporary LOBs

Reason for the Error ORA-24814: operation not allowed for temporary LOBs

Temporary LOB locators are not allowed in the operation. For example: OCILobAssign only takes persistent LOB locators as parameters, not temporary LOBs.

How to fix the Error ORA-24814: operation not allowed for temporary LOBs ?

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

Use OCILobLocatorAssign for temporary LOBs instead. Note that OCILobLocatorAssign can also be used for persistent LOBs, in which case it will behave the same as OCILobAssign.