I appreciate any help. In my Perl script I have a code part that fetches a data from database InterBase, everything works fine except in case when fetched data has size of over 1MB! Script(s) work just fine if the "content" in MEMO or BLOB fields of the database has smaller size than 1MBytes; if size of the file (data) is over 1MB then "ERROR: Blob exceeds maximum length" is generated in the "error.log" of the Apache Server (and of course data is not fetched): 

#     . . . . . - rest of the code
    use DBI;
#     . . . . . - rest of the code
        # name & location of the database
    $dbpath = 'C:\Database\database_01.fdb';
    $dsn = "DBI:InterBase:database=$dbpath;host=123.456.78.9;ib_dialec
+t=3";
        # connesting to DB
    $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, '', '', {AutoCommit => 0}) or die "$DBI:
+:errstr";
        # setting the size of the buffer (1KB)
    $dbh -> {LongReadLen} = 1024;
        # NO matter if Truncation is ON or OFF? Tried both cases!
    #$dbh -> {LongTruncOk} = 0;
    $dbh -> {LongTruncOk} = 1;

        # here, DATA is MEMO field in the database!
    $sql = "SELECT FIRST 1 DATA FROM CONFIGURATION ORDER BY CREATEDDAT
+E DESC";
    $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Preparing: ", $dbh->errstr;
    $sth->execute or die "Executing: ", $sth->errstr;
        # opening FILE HANDLER for writing the content of the MEMO/BLO
+B field
    open (F, ">./database1.txt");
        # fetching the content
    while (@row = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
        foreach (@row) {
        # saving into the file "database1.txt"!
            print F "$_";
        }
    }
    close F;
    $sth->finish;
    $dbh->commit or warn $dbh->errstr;
    $dbh->disconnect or warn $dbh->errstr;
#     . . . . . - rest of the code

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I have tried several workarounds (in the current code I've increased the size of the buffer, LongReadLen - EVEN to 10MB; also tried with chunks & blob_read method - to get small pieces of data & to compose/concatenate them again at the end BUT got nothing, even with data that had size of only 10KB!), everytime it was unsuccessfully! Maybe I should replace the DBD-InterBase with some other Perl module?
Installed Environment: Perl version 5.6.1, Firebird 1.5.0 (database: InterBase) and I have two similar scripts (Win32 & Unix), both work OK when fetched data had smaller size than 1MB, installed Perl modules: DBI 1.37, DBD-InterBase 0.40.

*NOTICE: I read this:
"The DBI currently defines no way to insert or update LONG/LOB values piece-wise - piece by piece. That means you're limited to handling values that will fit into your available memory."
as well as:
"Read/Write BLOB fields block by block not (yet) supported. The maximum size of a BLOB read/write is hardcoded to about 1MB."
- Does that mean that I can't get data using DBI and DBD:InterBase with size larger than 1MB?

Please help me with any ideas, hints or solutions!

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