Hello learned ones-

I'm having a problem using DBI with the ORACLE spatial data type SDO_GEOMETRY.

Specifically, I am attempting to use bind_param with this data type. When I try this the error returned states that Oracle is expecting SDO_GEOMETRY, but is getting CHAR...

here is what I've tried:
1)Binding naively
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my $insq = "insert into SHAPES (some_rectangles) values (?)";
$sth = $DBH->prepare($insq);

my $rectangle = "SDO_GEOMETRY(2003,NULL,NULL,SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1003,3),SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY($targetstart,$chrm_map->{$target_chrm_syn}->{'depth'}, $targetend,$chrm_map->{$target_chrm_syn}->{'depth'}))";

$sth->bind_param(1, $rectangle);

##This will give the "expecting GEOMETRY, got CHAR" type error from oracle.

I've also tried adding:
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use DBD::Oracle qw(:ora_types);

#and then
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$sth->bind_param(1,$rectangle,{ora_type => ORA_CLOB}) #i also tried ORA_BLOB...

no luck, same error.
If I try to specify SDO_GEOMETRY as the ora_type, DBI throws an error that this type is not supported.

I can prepare each insert and select from an insert string, and skip the binding, but that is not going to work long term as i have too many queries to make...

Thanks in Advance for your help & insight!

john major

In reply to Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY and DBI binding problem by iamh2o

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