Oracle: ORA-01432 Error Message

ORA-01432 Error Message

Learn the cause and how to resolve the ORA-01432 error message in Oracle.

Description

When you encounter an ORA-01432 error, the following error message will appear:

• ORA-01432: public synonym to be dropped does not exist

Cause

You tried to drop a public synonym that does not exist.

Resolution

The option(s) to resolve this Oracle error are:

Option #1

Check to make sure that you specified the public synonym name correctly.

Option #2

Your synonym may be a private synonym, not a public synonym.

You can find a listing of all public synonyms with the following SQL statement:

SELECT *
FROM all_synonyms
WHERE owner = 'PUBLIC';

To find out if your synonym was created as a private synonym, run the following SQL statement:

SELECT *
FROM all_synonyms
WHERE owner <> 'PUBLIC'
AND synonym_name = 'SYNONYM_NAME';

where SYNONYM_NAME is the name of the synonym that you are searching for.

If your synonym was created as a private synonym, you can drop it with the following command:

DROP SYNONYM synonym_name;

where synonym_name is the name of the private synonym that you wish to drop.