DataPump Export (EXPDP) Fails With Error LPX-216 Invalid Character

DataPump Export (EXPDP) Fails With Error LPX-216 Invalid Character (Doc ID 1302916.1）

In this Document

Symptoms

Cause

Solution

References

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.4 and later

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later

Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later

Information in this document applies to any platform.

SYMPTOMS

DataPump export fails with errors:

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ORA-39014: One or more workers have prematurely exited.

ORA-39029: worker 14 with process name "DW0G" prematurely terminated

ORA-31671: Worker process DW0G had an unhandled exception.

ORA-24795: Illegal ROLLBACK attempt made

ORA-06512: at "SYS.KUPW$WORKER", line 1352

ORA-24795: Illegal ROLLBACK attempt made

ORA-06512: at "SYS.KUPW$WORKER", line 7073

ORA-24795: Illegal ROLLBACK attempt made

ORA-06512: at "SYS.KUPW$WORKER", line 2829

ORA-24795: Illegal ROLLBACK attempt made

ORA-24795: Illegal ROLLBACK attempt made

ORA-06512: at "SYS.KUPW$WORKER", line 10915

ORA-02354: error in exporting/importing data

ORA-39774: parse of metadata stream failed with the following error:

LPX-00216: invalid character 216 (0xD8

Job "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_13" stopped due to fatal error at 12:12:47

ORA-39014: One or more workers have prematurely exited.

CAUSE

The cause of the problem is the direct path unload method. The problem ceases when specifying an external table unload method per undocumented parameter ACCESS_METHOD=EXTERNAL_TABLE.

SOLUTION

Export with parameter ACCESS_METHOD=EXTERNAL_TABLE.

REFERENCES

NOTE:552424.1 - Export/Import DataPump Parameter ACCESS_METHOD - How to Enforce a Method of Loading and Unloading Data