12c : PDB cannot share CDB’s temporary tablespace

As per Oracle 12c documentation,  a PDB can

– have its own local temporary tablespace, or

– if it does not have its own  temporary tablespace, it can share the temporary tablespace with the CDB.

To demonstrate a PDB sharing the temporary tablespace of CDB,  the  first step is to create a PDB without a temporary tablespace. By default when a PDB is created from seed, it is created with its local temporary tablespace TEMP and it cannot be dropped as it is the default temporary tablespace of the PDB.

So, the only options I could think of were to

Method – I

  • Create a non-CDB without temporary tablespace and the plug it into a CDB

Method – II

  • Create a non-CDB / PDB with temporary tablespace,
  • Generate its xml file using dbms_PDB
  •  Edit the xml file to remove the entry for temporary tablespace
  •   Plug in the non-CDB into a CDB

I will demonstrate the second method. For this purpose, I created a non-CDB orcl2 using DBCA so that it contained default temporary tablespace temp.

– Open the non-CDB in read only mode

ORCL2> shu immediate;
             startup mount;
             alter database open read only;

– Generate an XML metadata file for the non-CDB

ORCL2>exec dbms_pdb.describe ('/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl2/orcl2.xml');

– Edit the xml file to remove the entry for temp tablespace

[oracle@em12 ~]$ vi /u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl2/orcl2.xml

– Use the xml file to plug in the non-CDB into  CDB2 as PDB_ORCL2

CDB$ROOT@CDB2>create pluggable database pdb_orcl2 using '/u01/app/oracle/oradata/orcl2/orcl2.xml'  nocopy;

– Connect to PDB_ORCL2 and run the “$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/noncdb_to_pdb.sql” script to clean up the new PDB, removing any items that should not be present in a PDB.

CDB$ROOT@CDB2>connect sys/oracle@pdb_orcl2 as sysdba

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> @?/rdbms/admin/noncdb_to_pdb

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> alter pluggable database open;

– Check that data from non-CDB is available in the new PDB

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2>select count(empno) from scott.emp;

COUNT(EMPNO)
------------
14

– Verify that temporary tablespace has not been created in PDB_ORCL2

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces;

TABLESPACE_NAME
------------------------------
SYSTEM
SYSAUX
USERS
EXAMPLE

– Verify that tempfile has not been created in PDB_ORCL2

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> select name from v$tempfile;

no rows selected

So, I was able to create a PDB without temporary tablespace. Now I wanted to check if PDB_ORCL2 uses the temp tablespace of the CDB.

– First check that default temporary tablespace TEMP exists for the CDB

CDB$ROOT@CDB2> select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces;

TABLESPACE_NAME
------------------------------
SYSTEM
SYSAUX
UNDOTBS1
TEMP
USERS

CDB$ROOT@CDB2>  select PROPERTY_NAME, PROPERTY_VALUE

from database_properties
where upper(PROPERTY_NAME) like '%TEMP%';

PROPERTY_NAME                  PROPERTY_VALUE
------------------------------ ---------------
DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE        TEMP

– Set pga_aggregate_target to its lowest allowed value of 10m to force a sort to spill to the temporary tablespace.

 CDB$ROOT@CDB2> alter system set pga_aggregate_target=10m;

– Issue a query in PDB_ORCL2 which will spill to temporary tablespace

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> select * from dba_objects order by 1,2,3,4,5,6,7;
select * from dba_objects order by 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00959: tablespace 'TEMP' does not exist

I expected the query to use temporary tablespace TEMP of CDB but it failed as it expected temp tablespace to exist locally for PDB as its default temporary tablespace is set to TEMP (as was in non-CDB)

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> col property_name for a30
PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> col property_value for a15
PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> l
1  select PROPERTY_NAME, PROPERTY_VALUE from database_properties
2*  where upper(PROPERTY_NAME) like '%TEMP%'
PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> /

PROPERTY_NAME                  PROPERTY_VALUE
------------------------------ ---------------
DEFAULT_TEMP_TABLESPACE        TEMP

 — I tried to modify the default temporary tablespace to cdb$root:temp but that attempt also failed.

PDB_ORCL2@CDB2> alter database default temporary tablespace cdb$root:temp;
alter database default temporary tablespace cdb$root:temp
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended

Hence, I was able to create a PDB without temporary tablespace but could not make it use the temporary tablespace of CDB.

References:

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5 thoughts on “12c : PDB cannot share CDB’s temporary tablespace

  1. Hi Anuj Mam,

    Yes even I came to know this today when I was trying to make CDB temporary tablespace as one of PDB Default temporary tablespace.

    Thanks for Post

    Best Regards
    Jamsher

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