Pop-up LOV - Internal Server Error

Question

I have a pop-up LOV with the query as below:
select distinct a1 d, a1 r
from temp
where ((:P10111_X1 = 2 or :P10111 is null) or
(:P10111_X1 = 1
and (col1 like :P10111_col1 or :P10111_col1 is null)
and (col2 like :P10111_col2 or :P10111_col2 is null)
and (col3 like :P10111_col3 or :P10111_col3 is null)
and (col4 like :P10111_col4 or :P10111_col4 is null)
and (col5 like :P10111_col5 or :P10111_col5 is null)
and (col6 like :P10111_col6 or :P10111_col6 is null)
and (col7 like :P10111_col7 or :P10111_col7 is null)
and (col8 like :P10111_col8 or :P10111_col8 is null)
and (col9 like :P10111_col9 or :P10111_col9 is null)
and (col10 like :P10111_col10 or :P10111_col10 is null)
and (col11 like :P10111_col11 or :P10111_col11 is null)
and (col12 like :P10111_col12 or :P10111_col12 is null)
and (col13 like :P10111_col13 or :P10111_col13 is null)
and (col14 like :P10111_col14 or :P10111_col14 is null)
and (col15 like :P10111_col15 or :P10111_col15 is null)
and (col16 like :P10111_col16 or :P10111_col16 is null)
and (col17 like :P10111_col17 or :P10111_col17 is null)
and (col18 like :P10111_col18 or :P10111_col18 like '3')
and (col19 like :P10111_col19 or :P10111_col19 like '3')
and (col20 like :P10111_col20 or :P10111_col20 like '3')
and (col21 like :P10111_col21 or :P10111_col21 like '3')
and (col22 like :P10111_col22 or :P10111_col22 like '3')
and (col23 like :P10111_col23 or :P10111_col23 like '3')
and (col24 like :P10111_col24 or :P10111_col24 like '3')
and (col25 like :P10111_col25 or :P10111_col25 like '3')
and (col26 like :P10111_col26 or :P10111_col26 like '3')
and (col27 like :P10111_col27 or :P10111_col27 like '3')
and (col28 like :P10111_col28 or :P10111_col28 like '3')
and (col29 like :P10111_col29 or :P10111_col29 like '3')))
order by col1;
The query is fine and works properly.
But when i try to open the POP-UP window, instead of displaying the List of values it gives a message "Internal Server Error" .
The error on the error log at the server is as belows:
[Fri Aug 11 14:46:04 2006] [error] [client 192.162.1.173] [ecid: 1155287764:192.162.1.227:5037:0:3454,0] mod_plsql: /pls/ilclpdv3/wwv_flow_utilities.gen_popup_list HTTP-500 ORA-02005: implicit (-1) length not valid for this bind or define datatype
When I remove any 3 'AND' conditions from the where clause it works properly.
I hope its with the size of the LOV query.
is there aany way to overcome it.
Thanks
Ameya.

Answer 1

Ameya - That is correct. You may have to call a function from within the query to shorten it. The function can refer to the page items using v('ITEM') notation. In APEX 2.2, the popup LOV implementation has been improved somewhat so that this kind of thing should not occur.
Scott