Hi, all!

I am pretty handy DBI/DBD, but I have a question. I am currently writing some scripts to read/write CLOB and BLOB fields to an Oracle 8 database. The version of the Oracle DBD we are using does not support these LOB types. Obviously, the preferred solution is to upgrade DBD, but (it's a long story) this is not feasible for the current project. Further, we do not want to use LONG and LONG RAW data types.

I hear rumors and whispers that it might be possible to either trick or bypass the DBD to access the fields with the older version of the DBD, but no one can tell how (or even definitively whether) this is actually possible.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

BNJ

Edited: footpad, 26 Aug 01 - ~21:35 (PDT)

In reply to CLOBs/BLOBs in DBD by bnjohnson

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