Re: Apache::Session and Informix

2000-08-25 Thread Chris Winters
I have no experience with Informix, but perhaps you need to store the data as binary? The Apache::Session::Sybase module stores the data in an IMAGE (rather than TEXT) field and does the necessary pack/unpack to convert the data behind the scenes. Maybe you could do something similar with Informix

Re: Apache::Session and Informix (actually problem with blobs in Informix)

2000-08-25 Thread Carl Tichler
Hello Jay, This is actually a documented problem with DBD::Informix and blobs; DBD::Informix cannot update a blob ("TEXT") field in a query, and the only current workaround is to do a delete, then insert. I have attached the relevant section from the DBD::Informix man page. This would probably