On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:41:37PM -0500, Kevin White wrote: > I'm having trouble with Perl scripts that to a select of a date field, > specifically in the enclosed test, a timestamp(6). > > Attached are the files requested in the README. > > I'm using Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Oracle 9.0.1. Perl is 5.6.0, DBI is > 1.21, DBD-Oracle 1.12. > > When I select a timestamp field, I get a segmentation fault.
DBD::Oracle doesn't understand the new Oracle 9i data types. That _may_ be the problem. > It looks like the problem is deep in the bowels of Oracle, which makes > me think my change of the format has something to do with this. Also very possible. > Please help...as the sample script shows, I discovered a workaround > (to_char), but I'd like to help resolve this. to_char is the obvious workaround. > I'd love to help out in any way. Start digging into the DBD::Oracle code :) Especially dbd_describe (oci8.c) Tim.
