How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28668: cannot reference mapping table of an index-organized table?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28668: cannot reference mapping table of an index-organized table with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28668: cannot reference mapping table of an index-organized table

Reason for the Error ORA-28668: cannot reference mapping table of an index-organized table

An attempt to directly access the mapping table of an index-organized table

How to fix the Error ORA-28668: cannot reference mapping table of an index-organized table ?

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

Issue the statement against the parent index-organized table containing the specified mapping table.