How to fix the Oracle error ORA-39289: Cannot add or drop local index partition or subpartition: string?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-39289: Cannot add or drop local index partition or subpartition: string with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-39289: Cannot add or drop local index partition or subpartition: string

Reason for the Error ORA-39289: Cannot add or drop local index partition or subpartition: string

DBMS_METADATA_DIFF was comparing two locally partitioned indexes with different partitions or subpartitions. There is no SQL ALTER statement to add or drop a partition or subpartition of a locally partitioned index.

How to fix the Error ORA-39289: Cannot add or drop local index partition or subpartition: string ?

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

The difference cannot be eliminated with an SQL ALTER statement.