ORA-01450 on Index Rebuild

Hello all,
So, I got this:

SQL> ALTER INDEX MATHEUS.INDEX_1 REBUILD online TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;
ALTER INDEX MATHEUS.INDEX_1 REBUILD online TABLESPACE NEW_TBS
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01450: maximum key length (3215) exceeded

So, is this a bug? Yes it is.

From MOS ALTER INDEX REBUILD ONLINE Fails with ORA-01450 (Doc ID 236329.1):
“This is caused by issue Bug:2525767. The online rebuild of the index creates a journal table and index. This internal journal IOT table contains more columns in its index. Their total length is greater than number reported in ORA-01450 error message. This is a feature of online rebuild.
Maximum key length is calculated with respect to the database block size. It means that current value of the initialization parameter db_block_size is not large enough so that the internal journal IOT can be created without errors.”

Wanna know more, there is a great article on how this works exactly, by Alex Gorbachev: ORA-01450 During Online Index Rebuild

The solution?
It simply cannot be done online as explained, so doing it offline is the solution:

SQL> ALTER INDEX MATHEUS.INDEX_1 REBUILD TABLESPACE NEW_TBS;

Index altered.

Hope it helps, cheers!

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