I have Oracle 10g installed on linux machine.Oracle has shipped the perl version 5.8.3 but I have one more version 5.8.0 on my machine. On selecting a varchar column of some table using 5.8.0 perl gives segmentation fault whereas it works fine with the version 5.8.3. But if i select the number column of the same table,both the versions work fine. here is the code snippet:

use strict;
use DBI;

my $id=41;
my $twotask=$ENV{"TWO_TASK"};
my $dsn="dbi:Oracle:".$twotask;
my $DBH=DBI->connect("$dsn",'hr','hr') or die "error \n".DBI->errstr;

my $stmt="select varchar_column from temp where id=?";
my $sth=$DBH->prepare($stmt);
$sth->execute($id)||die "Could not exec sql stmt\n";
my @row=$sth->fetchrow_array;
print $row[0];
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this dumps core with 5.8.0 but works fine with 5.8.3. if i change the query to "select number_column from temp where id=?" both versions work fine. Any help regarding this issue?