Temporary tablespaces

Restriction on Taking Tablespaces Offline: You cannot take a temporary tablespace offline.

To get an overview of temp tablespace usage:

select TABLESPACE_NAME,CURRENT_USERS,SEGMENT_FILE,USED_EXTENTS,FREE_EXTENTS from v$sort_segment;

select username, user, contents, segtype, tablespace from v$tempseg_usage;

If you want to drop non-default temporary tablespace, you issue something like:

> drop tablespace tempt including contents and datafiles;

At least in 10.2 the previous statement got hanging until the temporary segments (temp tables in my case) were not cleared.

Also after killing the non-default temp tablespace 'tempt', the temp tables created in there became invalid:

SCOTT@andrkydb> insert into te values (6);
insert into te values (6)
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00959: tablespace 'TEMPT' does not exist

it is also funny, that I now can neither use, nor drop the temp table 'te':

SCOTT@andrkydb> drop table te;
drop table te
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-14452: attempt to create, alter or drop an index on temporary table already in use

Metalink article (Doc ID: Note:270645.1) says that table need to be truncated before drop. But it still doesn't help. I cannot drop the table.

If I recreate the tablespace 'tempt' I can use the table but still cannot drop it!

Instance restart helped...

This problem doesn't appear if we operate only with default temporary tablespaces.