Re: Smart Blob/JDBC -> getBytes returns null!

Posted in 2004

Clive Eisen — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:31:50 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Steve wrote: > Infrequently, JDBC reads of a Smart Blob return null bytes. > > That is blob.getBytes() returns null without throwing any exception. > > Sometimes subsequent reads of the same blob returns valid bytes, > leading me to believe the smart blob is valid within informix. > > . It sounds like the timing bug in the JDBC where you get namespace clashes of the temporary file names that the blob is put into on the client, the timimg granularity is not fine enough - we had to change the JDBC supplier - can't remember who to though - sorry