[sqlalchemy] Oracle setinputsizes usage (just making sure)

2010-09-13 Thread Kevin Mills
I just want to make sure that what I am reading at http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/dialects/oracle.html#connecting is correct when connecting to an Oracle database using sqa. When I was using cx_Oracle directly I would have to use cursor.setinputseizes when I am using bind variables (especially whe

Re: [sqlalchemy] Oracle's XMLTyoe

2010-09-12 Thread Kevin Mills
Sorry about that. It was 4am this morning on my android so i wasnt thinking clearly yet. XMLType is an Oracle object type and library for storing and interacting with XML documents. getClobVal is a method of XMLType that returns an XML chunk of data as a CLOB instead of as an object. I have fou