Here's the whole block with your changes (it still fails):

sub do_blob
{
my $myblob = shift;
my $blobid = $dbh->func($dbh->{pg_INV_WRITE}, 'lo_creat');
print "Created $blobid\n";
$dbh->{AutoCommit} = 0;
my $blobfd = $dbh->func($blobid, $dbh->{pg_INV_WRITE}, 'lo_open');
print "Blobfd $blobfd\n";
my $nb = $dbh->func($blobfd, $myblob, length($myblob), 'lo_write');
$dbh->commit;
if($nb == 0) {warn "Why?!?! : $!\n";}
$dbh->func($blobfd, 'lo_close');
$blobid += 0;
print "Try: insert into patblob values ('Yo', $blobid)\n";
$boo = $dbh->prepare("insert into patblob (name,id) values (?, ?)") or
+ die "DB Err: " . $dbh->errstr;
print "Prepped\n";
$boo->execute('Yo', $blobid) or die "Execute error: " . $dbh->errstr;
print "Executed\n";
$dbh->commit;
$boo->finish();
}
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I think $blobid is numeric -- here's the output:

Created 186811
Blobfd 0
Try: insert into patblob values ('Yo', 186811)
Prepped
NOTICE:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of 
+transaction block
Executed
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I added that += 0 part recently to make sure that perl knows that $blobid is meant to be numeric.. Thanks for your help..

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