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Jerry Kaas — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
In <36vvcu$52b@raffles.technet.sg> scornd7@solomon.technet.sg (Tang Chang Thai) writes:
>Hi ... I was trying to insert a character string of > 256 bytes into a field
>that is defined to be char(360) using dynamic SQL. The online engine returned
>an error of -280. Is this supposed to be a feature?
>The version of Informix is 5.01 on both client and server.
>Any help appreciated.
What we did was split the field into 2 fields. The update command would look
something like this
UPDATE x SET f1(1,255),f1(256,360) = $s1, $s2 WHERE ...
If I remember correctly.
Jerry Kaas
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