Re: ora-3113 creating CONTEXT index on BLOB

>> Oracle Standard Edition 10.2.0.2 on OpenVMS 8.3 (Itanium server)
>>
>> I am attempting to create a CTXSYS.CONTEXT index on a blob column in
>> a table. When I run the command I get:

   Nope. nothing in alert.log, no dump produced.
>
> I found three hits on a search for ORA-03113 and CTSSYS.CONTEXT on the
> Oracle support web site (formerly metalink)
> "Index With URL_DATASTORE Fails With Core Dump" #754924.1 is
> recently entered (Dec 2008) and matches your version of Oracle so I
> definitely think this one is worth a read
>

   I read that one, but it refers to URL datastore rather than the direct datastore I'm using, so I'm not sure it's relevant.

> Did you verify your ctx_ddl.create_preference and
> ctx_ddl.set_attribute for the index you are trying to create?
>

I didn't set any preferences, I'm just trying to use the defaults.

I notice that it creates several tables in the schema before it dies (nothing in any of them though):

DR$XXX$I
DR$XXX$R
DR$XXX$N
DR$XXX$K