ORA-14223

This was tested on Oracle 11.2.0.2.7. You can create a table with deferred segment creation as follows: 

SQL> conn andrew/reid

Connected.

SQL> l

  1  create table blah (col1 number)

  2* segment creation deferred

SQL> /

 

Table created.

 

SQL>

... but some users, e.g. SYS, are not allowed to do this: 

SQL> conn / as sysdba

Connected.

SQL> show user

USER is "SYS"

SQL> l

  1  create table blah (col1 number)

  2* segment creation deferred

SQL> /

create table blah (col1 number)

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-14223: Deferred segment creation is not supported

for this table

 

SQL>