diff --git a/nominatim/db/connection.py b/nominatim/db/connection.py
index a64cbfaf..fce897bc 100644
--- a/nominatim/db/connection.py
+++ b/nominatim/db/connection.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class Cursor(psycopg2.extras.DictCursor):
         """ Query execution that logs the SQL query when debugging is enabled.
         """
         if LOG.isEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG):
-            LOG.debug(self.mogrify(query, args).decode('utf-8')) # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            LOG.debug(self.mogrify(query, args).decode('utf-8'))
 
         super().execute(query, args)