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    ORA-30553: The function is not deterministic

    What, exactly, does it mean?

    I was trying to create a function based index using a function that I defined. I got this error.

    Now I can guess as to what it means - but what exactly is the database telling me?

    "Deterministic"????

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    I bet you used "sysdate", or "user" in the function.

    It means that the value returned by the function is not entirely determined by the inputs to the function.
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    No actually!

    It was a functuion that returned the upper case version of a string.

    Why not use UPPER I hear you cry! Well, I did. I just wanted to see if using a user-defined function would work just as well. It didn't.

    The function accepted a VARCHAR2 string and had a body...

    RETURN (UPPER(string));

    Works fine in SQLPlus using

    SELECT UPPER_FUNC('lowercase') FROM dual;

    Returns> LOWERCASE

    But when creating the index based on this function I get an error.

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    Hmmm.

    What's the code in the UPPER_FUNC() definition?
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    By the way, did you declare the UPPER_FUNC() function to be deterministic? Could be that the function based index code is looking for that - it won't determine itself whether the function is deterministic, it needs the function itself to say so.
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    And how,pray tell, do I do that?

    Been around a bit and thats the first I've heard/read about that Dave!

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    Welcome to Dave's world.

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    Yes indeed ... welcome.

    Here is the documentation on DETERMINISTIC ...
    You must specify this keyword if you intend to call the function in the expression of a function-based index or from the query of a materialized view that is marked REFRESH FAST or ENABLE QUERY REWRITE.
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    I was blind and now I can see...!

    Muchas Gracias.


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