Hello,

I am hoping to get some input from those who have encountered this situation and know the solution.

When inserting/updating a varchar2 field in an Oracle 9i table in a Perl application, we occasionally observe the following error:

ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column

Same error was observed in a J2EE application that uses same database but a different table and column, also varchar2. The database is 9i but that application uses 10g JDBC driver.

Our DBA found an easy way to fix it in the Java application: setting in oracle-ds.xml file the following property:

<connection-property name="oracle.jdbc.RetainV9LongBindBehavior">true</connection-property>

If someone has seen it before, do you know of any similar approach in Perl DBI usage? We'd like to avoid changing NLS* environment variables or any other parameters in the database since this may adversely affect multiple applications.

Thanks!

In reply to DBI ORA-01461 by hotpelmen

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