Hi list, Env: 11.2.0.3.0, Solaris 10 SPARC I have an issue here envolving REF and user defined types. I setup the following scenario: 1) 2 different types, MY_FOO_TYPE_2.FooRef is a reference to the first created type CREATE TYPE MY_FOO_TYPE AS OBJECT ( Id INTEGER, State INTEGER, Name varchar2(255) ) NOT FINAL CREATE TYPE MY_FOO_TYPE_2 AS OBJECT ( FooId INTEGER, FooStateId INTEGER, FooNativeName VARCHAR2(255), FooRef REF MY_FOO_TYPE ) NOT FINAL 2) Two different tables. One is just an heap table using the first created type and a INDEX and PK on column Id. The second table have one constraint that is a reference to the first table. Please note that constraint is refering FooRef that is a column in TYPE MY_FOO_TYPE_2 that refers to previous type. In the end a INDEX on second table using FooRef column is created. CREATE TABLE T1_MY_TABLE OF MY_FOO_TYPE ( CONSTRAINT CK_Id_PK PRIMARY KEY (Id) USING INDEX ( CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IDX_T1_MY_TABLE ON T1_MY_TABLE(Id) INITRANS 10 TABLESPACE GEN_IDX ) ) OBJECT IDENTIFIER IS PRIMARY KEY TABLESPACE GEN_DATA; CREATE TABLE T2_MY_TABLE OF MY_FOO_TYPE_2 ( CONSTRAINT FooState_ID UNIQUE (FooStateId) USING INDEX ( CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IDX_My_FOO_TYPE_2 ON T2_MY_TABLE(FooStateId) INITRANS 10 TABLESPACE GEN_IDX ), CONSTRAINT CK_R0 FooRef REFERENCES T1_MY_TABLE ON DELETE CASCADE, CONSTRAINT CK_R0 CHECK(FooRef IS NOT NULL), CONSTRAINT FooId_PK PRIMARY KEY (FooId) USING INDEX ( CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IDX_FooId_PK ON T2_MY_TABLE(FooId) INITRANS 10 TABLESPACE GEN_IDX ) ) OBJECT IDENTIFIER IS PRIMARY KEY TABLESPACE GEN_DATA; CREATE INDEX IDX_FooId_FK ON T2_MY_TABLE(FooRef) INITRANS 10 TABLESPACE GEN_IDX; All this runs fine and everything is created without issues. Then a run datapump to export the schema: expdp pmdb_luis/PMDB_LUIS@DB schemas=PMDB_LUIS directoryÚTA_PUMP_DIR dumpfile=luis.dmp logfile=luis.log Dump file set for PMDB_LUIS.SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01 is: /opt/oracle/app/oracle/admin/TNMSAM/dpdump/luis.dmp Job "PMDB_LUIS"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" successfully completed at 05:48:04 Then i delete all 2 tables and 2 objects with the following SQL: DROP TABLE T2_MY_TABLE; DROP TABLE T1_MY_TABLE; DROP TYPE MY_FOO_TYPE_2; DROP TYPE MY_FOO_TYPE; And finally i run the impdp: impdp pmdb_luis/PMDB_LUIS@DB schemas=PMDB_LUIS directoryÚTA_PUMP_DIR dumpfile=luis.dmp logfile=luis.log rocessing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/INDEX/INDEX *ORA-39083: Object type INDEX failed to create with error:* *ORA-22808: REF dereferencing not allowed* Failing sql is: CREATE INDEX "PMDB_LUIS"."IDX_FOOID_FK" ON "PMDB_LUIS"."T2_MY_TABLE" ("FOOREF"."ID") PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 10 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 163840 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "GEN_IDX" PARALLEL 1 Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/CONSTRAINT/CONSTRAINT I got here a ORA-22808 that for me doesn't make sense because after this error i can manually create the index that failed manually (IDX_FOOID_FK). Is this a datapump issue or i'm missing something? Thank you very much, Luís Marques http://lcmarques.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l