How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28671: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a partitioned index as a whole?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28671: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a partitioned index as a whole with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28671: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a partitioned index as a whole

Reason for the Error ORA-28671: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a partitioned index as a whole

User attempted to UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES on a partitioned index using ALTER INDEX UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES statement, which is illegal.

How to fix the Error ORA-28671: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a partitioned index as a whole ?

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

Issue a partition level operation with ALTER INDEX .. PARTITION .. UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES