On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:02:07PM -0000, Dan Osborne wrote:
> I'm getting the above error on a new machine set up with perl 5.8.0
> DBD-Oracle 1.16 and DBI 1.46.
>
> This triggers the error ...
>
> $cursor=$dbh->prepare(<<__SQL__);
> select data_type,
> data_length,
> data_precision,
> data_scale
> from user_tab_columns
> where
> column_name = ?
> and
> table_name = ?
> __SQL__
>
> my $res=$cursor->execute(@fld);
>
> Oddly, if I substitute literals for @fld it works OK ...
>
> my $res=$cursor->execute('gen_user','gen_users');
>
> I can access the same database (Oracle 8.1.6) without error from machines
> with the same version of perl but earlier DBDs.
>
> My NLS_CHARACTERSET is US7ASCII (from $dbh->ora_nls_parameters()).
>
> Any guidance as to how to correct this error would be much appreciated.
I'd guess that the contents of @fld are marked (by perl) as being UTF-8.
You can use the new data_string_diff() and data_string_desc()
utility functions in DBI 1.46 to find out more.
Don't forget to (re)read the Unicode section of the DBD::Oracle docs.
Tim.
