Creating stored outlines for date datatype bind variable

Question

While trying to create stored lines for a query having date datatype I get
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected DATE got NUMBER error:
desc table_t1;
col1 number,
datecol date
CREATE OR REPLACE OUTLINE TEST FOR CATEGORY TEST
ON
select * from table_t1
WHERE T1.COL1 IS NOT NULL
                                      AND T1.DATECOL BETWEEN TRUNC (:D1)
                                                               AND TRUNC (:D2)
                                                                   + 1Can someone please help me what am I doing wrong?
I also tried to declare variable of date from sqlplus but it seems sqlplus doesn't have any support for date datatype var declaration as bind variable.
Thanks
Kev
Edited by: Kevin_K on Jan 3, 2011 4:48 AM

Answer 1

I think in this case you would have to take an approach like this:
alter session set set create_stored_outlines=true;
run your sql-statement (with a date bind variable), using anonymous plsql block.
alter session set create_stored_outlines=false;
Not sure though. It's been a while since I played around with outlines.