On Jan 2, 2012, at 6:25 AM, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> I've got an existing database that I'm (mostly) successfully using
>> DBIx::Class with. There's a table with large CLOBs, though that's giving me
>> some issues.
>> I can set LongReadLen to some huge value and things work (for now), but I
>> know people are going to be pushing bigger files into the DB. I don't really
>> have the option of just using the FS (which is what I would prefer), so I
>> need to be able to handle arbitrarily large CLOBs (or BLOBs).
>> It seems like this is something others would have already solved, but
>> perhaps my CPAN searching skills aren't very good. Something like
>> DBIx::BLOB::Handle (but implemented as an InflateColumn or FilterColumn)
>> would probably be perfect. For my needs, it would be fine to use
>> DBD::Oracle-specific calls.
>> Ideally, calling code would get a filehandle that underneath is doing
>> (ora_auto_lob = 0) ora_lob_read/ora_lob_write/ora_lob_append operations.
>> Any pointers, or thoughts before I start coding? I was pretty surprised I
>> didn't find something that already does this in CPAN.
>
> Any chance you could join us on IRC[1]? There are several approaches,
> would go much quicker if we can discuss them "live". I am 'ribasushi'
> over there. If not possible - let me know and we'll continue by email
I strongly prefer mailing list discussions (if only because they tend to get
archived and show up in future google searches), however I can try to join for
a while tomorrow to discuss (I'm not going to turn down free advice ;-) ).
THanks.
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Daniel J. Luke
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