hi all,

i'm working on an application handling with rather complicated data structures. in order to keep database tables concise, i decided to put most of the volatile data into a large hashref, which i then freeze via Storable.pm and store them into a BLOB column.

the funny thing is, that now, when trying to retrieve the original data, i get the following error message:

Not a scalar string at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into ../../lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 363

my idea is, that this might be the result of using a blob. but before i start writing a script that reads the blobs and tries to store them into text columns, i thought, i better ask you.

i'm using Perl 5.8.4 on a debian-testing system, Storable version is 2.12, MySQL 4.1.11.

any clues will be appreciated, many thx in advance.

In reply to Storable & MySQL: BLOB or TEXT? by Anonymous Monk

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