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Context Index Dictionary Cleaning Orphan Records

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DRG-10507 - Duplicate Index Name - False Positive I’ve moved my blog from https://insanedba.blogspot.com to https://dincosman.com Please update your bookmarks and follow/subscribe at the new address for all the latest updates and content. More up-to-date content of this post may be available there. When doing some regular checks on SYSAUX tablespace occupants,  we have detected that CTXSYS.DR$PENDING table was at 2GB size and there were 15 million records despite we have daily periodic context index sync scheduler jobs.  We used below query to inspect unsynced context index records.  We searched for the 2243 id numbered context index in the CTXSYS.DR$INDEX table. It looked like a user created context index. Index owner and names are changed as KARTAL.IDXCTX_SOMETABLE_SOMECOLUMN. I searched dba_objects to get creation date of the object. But there was no record named as KARTAL.IDXCTX_SOMETABLE_SOMECOLUMN. That looked strange. This record seemed like a...