Accessing Confluence space errors out with DataIntegrityViolationException after import

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Summary

You imported a space from another confluence site and you're seeing an error message when trying to load it:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 System Error A system error has occurred — our apologies! Cause 0051: unique constrain. Dataintegrity Violation Exettion: Hibernate operation: could not execute statement; sal-n/a; ORA-00001: unique constraint () violated; nested exception is java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint () violated at org.springframework.jdbc.support.SQLStateSQLExceptionTranslator.doTranslate(SQLStateSQLExceptionTranslator.java: 104) caused by: java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint () at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer11.processError(T4CTTIoer11.java:494) caused by: Error : 1, Position: 0, Sql = insert into IMAGEDETAILS (HEIGHT, WIDTH, MIMETYPE, ATTACHMENTID) values (:1, :2, :3, :4 ), OriginalSql = insert into IMAGEDETAILS (HEIGHT, WIDTH, MIMETYPE, ATTACHMENTID) values (?, ?,?, ?), Error Msg = ORA-00001: unique constraint () violated at oracle.idbc.driver.T4CTT|oer11.processError(T4CTTIoer11.java:498) Stack Trace:[hide] org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Hibernate operation: could not execute statement: salun/a_0RA-00001: unique constraint XXXXXX violated; nested exception is java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint XXXXXX violated

Environment

This problem was identified in Confluence server and datacenter version 7.4.3. It could also affect other versions of Confluence.

Diagnosis

The error in the UI can be found in the atlassian-confluence.log file:

1 2 3 4 5 6 2021-03-31 15:25:27,793 ERROR [http-nio-8090-exec-368] [atlassian.confluence.servlet.ConfluenceServletDispatcher] sendError Could not execute action -- url: /confluence/display/TEST | traceId: 7e862b028a2118fa | userName: testuser org.springframework.dao.DataIntegrityViolationException: Hibernate operation: could not execute statement; sql=n/a; ORA-00001: unique constraint (database) violated ; nested exception is java.sql.SQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException: ORA-00001: unique constraint (database) violated Caused by: Error : 1, Position : 0, Sql = insert into IMAGEDETAILS (HEIGHT, WIDTH, MIMETYPE, ATTACHMENTID) values (:1 , :2 , :3 , :4 ), OriginalSql = insert into IMAGEDETAILS (HEIGHT, WIDTH, MIMETYPE, ATTACHMENTID) values (?, ?, ?, ?), Error Msg = ORA-00001: unique constraint (database) violated

The relevant part of the error is that it tells us the query that hit the constraint error:

1 insert into IMAGEDETAILS (HEIGHT, WIDTH, MIMETYPE, ATTACHMENTID) values (:1 , :2 , :3 , :4 ), OriginalSql = insert into IMAGEDETAILS (HEIGHT, WIDTH, MIMETYPE, ATTACHMENTID) values (?, ?, ?, ?)

On some occasions, the variables binding didn't happen so we won't know the actual duplicated entry.

Cause

A duplicated entry either in the entities.xml file or database.

Solution

Always backup your data before performing any modifications to the database.

  1. Shut down Confluence

  2. Backup your database

  3. Run the following query to have the attachments from the IMAGEDETAILS table from the space we just imported:

    1 2 3 4 5 select im.attachmentid, c.contenttype, c.title, s.spacename from IMAGEDETAILS im join CONTENT c ON im.ATTACHMENTID=c.CONTENTID join SPACES s ON c.SPACEID=s.SPACEID where SPACENAME = '<spacename>';
  4. Change the <spacename> value to the actual space name you imported to list the attachments.

  5. Get the ATTACHMENTID values and update the following query before running it:

    1 delete from IMAGEDETAILS where ATTACHMENTID IN (1237943823, 1237943832, 1237944913);
  6. Commit the changes and restart Confluence

  7. Navigate to the space with the error

    Deleting the entries in the IMAGEDETAILS won't break the attachments. However, we do recommend re-uploading the attachments listed in the query to recreate the entries in the respective table. This table holds meta-data for image attachments.

Updated on March 14, 2025

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