ORA-904 "MAXSIZE" When Exporting From 10g Database Using 11g Export Client.(exp) (Doc ID 957380.1)? 
APPLIES TO:
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 10.2.0.5 [Release 10.1 to 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 08-Apr-2013***
SYMPTOMS
ORA-904 occurs when using a release 11g export client to export from release 10g database.
Export succeeds when using any 10gR2 export client.
Example: 
Using export client (11.1.0.7) to export from 10.2.0.4 database 
exp scott/****** file=d:\exp.dmp 
Export: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Fri Oct 2 10:14:24 2009 
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Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production 
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options 
Export done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set 
server uses WE8ISO8859P15 character set (possible charset conversion) 
. exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions 
. exporting foreign function library names for user SCOTT 
. exporting PUBLIC type synonyms 
. exporting private type synonyms 
. exporting object type definitions for user SCOTT 
About to export SCOTT's objects ... 
. exporting database links 
. exporting sequence numbers 
. exporting cluster definitions 
. about to export SCOTT's tables via Conventional Path ... 
. . exporting table BONUS 
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 904 encountered 
ORA-00904: "MAXSIZE": invalid identifier 
. . exporting table DEPT 
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1003 encountered 
ORA-01003: no statement parsed 
. . exporting table EMP 
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 904 encountered 
ORA-00904: "MAXSIZE": invalid identifier 
. . exporting table SALGRADE 
EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1003 encountered 
ORA-01003: no statement parsed 
. exporting synonyms 
. exporting views 
. exporting stored procedures 
. exporting operators 
. exporting referential integrity constraints 
. exporting triggers 
. exporting indextypes 
. exporting bitmap, functional and extensible indexes 
EXP-00
