Automatically purge dropped tables in Oracle

Question

I am using an Oracle 18c database in a build system.

One of my builds is for a JPA/Hibernate project, which is configured as "create-drop". This means it will create all tables during startup and drop all of them again at the end.

The problem is: I can't configure Hibernate to create "drop ... purge" statements.

It seems that as a result the recycle bin has grown with each build, exceeding now the maximum allowed database size of 12 GB - and I am not even able to open the database anymore:

alter database open
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12954: The request exceeds the maximum allowed database size of 12 GB.

I have now droped the PDB and created a new one - but this will last for at most a month, before I run into the same problem again.

My question: Is there any option to tell Oracle to immediately purge dropped tables?

Answer 1

Is there any option to tell Oracle to immediately purge dropped tables?

That would be disabling the recycle bin, if only for the current session. Include ALTER SESSION SET recyclebin = OFF in your build process, or, if this is a development system, you can consider turning it off via the instance initialization parameter.

Alternatively, you can choose running the build as a dedicated Oracle user; you will then DROP USER ... CASCADE at the end, which will drop all user's tables and other objects without placing them in the recycle bin.