IMP-00009: abnormal end of export file

Or:

IMP-00051: Direct path exported dump file contains illegal column length

IMP-00008: unrecognized statement in the export file

Or:

Import silently skips a part of the dump, tables are missing and later constraints cannot be created.

connect test

create table part001

(

   col001  number,

   col002  varchar2(100)

)

partition by range (col001)

(

   partition p001 values less than (10),

   partition p002 values less than (100),

   partition p003 values less than (1000)

);

insert into part001 values (5, 'Text 5');

insert into part001 values (500, 'Text 500');

commit;

#> exp test/password file=part001.dmp tables=part001 direct=y

This will show:

About to export specified tables via Direct Path ...

. . exporting table                        PART001

. . exporting partition                           P001          1 rows exported

. . exporting partition                           P002          0 rows exported

. . exporting partition                           P003          1 rows exported

Export terminated successfully without warnings.

but the import breaks with error:

. importing TEST's objects into TEST

. . importing partition               "PART001":"P001"          1 rows imported

. . importing partition               "PART001":"P002"

IMP-00009: abnormal end of export file

Import terminated successfully with warnings.

...

. . exporting partition                     <partition_name>           0 rows exported

...

#> imp user/passw full=y

or:

#> imp user/passw full=y show=y

- conventional path export (exp direct=n)

Or:

- materialize the empty partitions before running direct path exports:

connect / as sysdba

exec dbms_space_admin.materialize_deferred_segments (schema_name => 'TEST', table_name => 'PART001', partition_name => 'P002');

Or:

- DataPump export (expdp)