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'__startswith’ modifier didn’t work fine on Oracle DB.

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Description

When using the '__startswith' modifier on Oracle DB, the data type of the automatically generated CAST function is only converted to 'VARCHAR' with no length, resulting in the following error.

ORA-00906: Left parenthesis missing

ex.)

async def get_counter(self, current_date):
        result = await (
            MY_TABLE
            .filter(create_dtm__startswith=current_date)
            .annotate(count=Count("*"))
            .group_by("status")
            .values("status", "count")
        )

        return result

actual query like that.

SELECT "RESULT" "status",COUNT(*) "count" FROM "MY_TABLE" WHERE CAST("DATETIME" AS VARCHAR) LIKE '20230829%' ESCAPE '\' GROUP BY "RESULT"

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Research direction

Start at the __startswith modifier and the Oracle-specific SQL generation that produces CAST(... AS VARCHAR); compare the generated query with the failing example. Done means the Oracle query executes without ORA-00906 while preserving the intended date-prefix filtering.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, sql
Domain
database
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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