GPS field type support
To support fields of the type SDO_GEOMETRY, Oracle locator should be installed on the Oracle server.
 | For a description on how to verify whether Oracle Locator (and only Oracle locater, not Spatial) is installed, refer to the Oracle Support documentation (Doc ID 357943.1). |
Known issue in Oracle with GPS fields
During data pump imports of databases containing GPS data in columns with type SDO_GEOMETRY, the following error may occur:
"ORA-39779: type "MDSYS"."SDO_GEOMETRY" not found or conversion to latest version is not possible"
Solution
1. Log on as sysdba and run $ORACLE_HOME/md/admin/sdoupggeom.sql on the destination database also to increase the size of the Ordinate Array definition.
2. Then perform the import again.
| | For more information, see the Oracle Support documentation (Doc ID 1584858.1). |