You can use the ALTER TABLE statement with the EXCHANGE PARTITION ... INCLUDING INDEXES clause to exchange a spatial table partition and its index partition with a corresponding table and its index. For information about exchanging partitions, see the description of the ALTER TABLE statement in Oracle Database SQL Language Reference.
This feature can help you to operate more efficiently in a number of situations, such as:
Bringing data into a partitioned table and avoiding the cost of index re-creation.
Managing and creating partitioned indexes. For example, the data could be divided into multiple tables. The index for each table could be built one after the other to minimize the memory and tablespace resources needed during index creation. Alternately, the indexes could be created in parallel in multiple sessions. The tables (along with the indexes) could then be exchanged with the partitions of the original data table.
Managing offline insert operations. New data can be stored in a temporary table and periodically exchanged with a new partition (for example, in a database with historical data).
To exchange partitions including indexes with spatial data and indexes, the two spatial indexes (one on the partition, the other on the table) must have the same dimensionality (sdo_indx_dims value). If the indexes do not have the same dimensionality, an error is raised. The table data is exchanged, but the indexes are not exchanged and the indexes are marked as failed. To use the indexes, you must rebuild them