32k Rowsize Limit (ORA-006502) for Report Query Shared Objects in Apex 4.1

Question

We're trying to move legacy reports off of PlanetPress into Apex. One of the report queries has over 20 tables and attempting to run with the "Test Report" button in the Edit Report Query screen gets the error message:
Error ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small
This problem appears to have been characterized previously here:
Listener Error - character string buffer too small (ORA-06502)
If I comment out 13 lines/items in my SELECT clause, the Test Report runs okay. If I add back in an innocuous literal sellect of a 100-character string, it goes back to the 6502 error.
I was trying to add more literal strings to force APEX to shift internally from a 32k-limit to a CLOB for the row, however, with a 32k literal string in my SQL statement, APEX crashes. I can't strip out columns from my SQL as all are needed for the report.
I would very much appreciate a work-around or a patch to Apex 4.1 to address this limitation. Thank you.

Answer 1

Try moving some of your select logic into a view, thus you can select from the views and reduce your code... (Move the joining between tables and such to the view..)
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX