Re: DBI, blobs, and strings longer than 256 chars

Steven Primrose-Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > After struggling for an afternoon trying to get blobs into an Informix > database > via perl and DBI, without any Informix-specific docs, I wondered is there a > data type that supports strings longer than 256 chars without resorting to > blobs. All transactions are carried out via SQL. The database is storing > some HTML so nothing more than 32KB would be needed. MSAccess can > manage this, so I figured Informix can too. Informix CHAR type is limited to 32767 characters so that should fill the bill. Art S. Kagel