On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0400, Eric Lenio wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:32:33AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:15:21AM -0400, Eric Lenio wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In perl 5.8.3, DBD::Oracle 1.14, DBI 1.47 I get expected values when I
> > > look at
> > > $sth->{PRECISION} to retrieve the lengths of varchar2 columns for a given
> > > table.
> > >
> > > I'm now testing perl 5.8.7, DBD::Oracle 1.16, and DBI 1.48 and with the
> > > same
> > > table the values in $sth->{PRECISION} for varchar2's are all quadruple
> > > what
> > > they are above. Can anyone shed any light on what might cause this? It
> > > seems
> > > to affect all tables.
> >
> > Probably due to character set related changes in recent releases.
> >
> > The best thing to do would be to add some tests to one of the test files
> > (t/*.t) that demonstrates the problem. Pick a file to change (ie
> > t/20select.t),
> > copy it (t/20select.t.orig), add the new test, check it fails (make test),
> > then post the output of "diff -u t/20select.t.orig t/20select.t".
> >
> > Please also post the two lines of client and server character set
> > details output by make test.
>
> Diff file is attached. Basically I added a test to check the PRECISION
> of the 2nd column in the test table, which I believe is supposed to be 10.
Nice and simple. Thanks.
> With this new test I get this during 'make test':
>
> t/20select..............# failed test 12 at line 109.
> # failed test 24 at line 109.
> # failed test 36 at line 109.
> FAILED tests 12, 24, 36-38
> Failed 5/35 tests, 85.71% okay
> t/21nchar............... Database and client versions and character sets:
> Database 9.2.0.3.0 CHAR set is AL32UTF8 (Unicode), NCHAR set is UTF8 (Unicode)
> Client 9.2.0.3 NLS_LANG is 'AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8', NLS_NCHAR is '<unset>'
>
> FYI I have another Oracle instance on the same machine which if I use this
> instance instead of the original one used above the tests all pass.
What client and server character set details are output by make test
for that instance?
Tim.
