How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28672: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a global index?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28672: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a global index with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28672: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a global index

Reason for the Error ORA-28672: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a global index

User attempted to UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES on a global partitioned or non-partitioned index. This feature is not supported for non-partitioned or global partitioned index on a partitioned IOT and a global partitioned index on a non-partitioned IOT.

How to fix the Error ORA-28672: UPDATE BLOCK REFERENCES may not be used on a global index ?

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

Use online index [partition] rebuild to fix the block references