Attempting to rename a table in Oracle fails with an underlying DBMS error

Description

Attempting to rename an Oracle table fails with an underlying DBMS error:

"SQL> RENAME tr_conductoranno100cond_bk TO tr_conductoranno100cond;
RENAME tr_conductoranno100cond_bk TO tr_conductoranno100cond
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
ORA-06512: at line 1"

Cause

This DBMS error occurs because a local string variable's length in the sde trigger st_rename_table is not defined large enough to support an input string value.

Anytime a table is renamed in Oracle, the sde trigger st_rename_table is executed to check if the table being renamed contains a sde.st_geometry attribute and updates the st_geometry metadata accordingly in the SDE schema.

Workaround