Default Temporary Tablespace

  • From: William Wagman <wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:10:25 -0800

Greetings,

I'm running Oracle 10.2.0.4.0EE on RHEL4. Following Metalink note 273276.1 I 
resized the temporary tablespace in a test database. However, I was not paying 
attention and issued the command

SQL> alter database default temporary tablespace <new_temp_tablespace>;

although the temporary tablespace I was resizing was not the default temporary 
tablespace, the system tablespace was. Upon attempting to again make the system 
tablespace the default temporary tablespace I receive an ORA-12901 error...

SQL> alter database default temporary tablespace system;
alter database default temporary tablespace system;
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12901: default temporary tablespace must be of TEMPORARY type

My question is are there potential problems with the system tablespace *not* 
being the default temporary tablespace? If so what are the potential problems 
and is there a way to restore the system tablespace as the default temporary 
tablespace short of rebuilding the database?

Thanks.

Bill Wagman
Univ. of California at Davis
IET Campus Data Center
wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx
(530) 754-6208

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