On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:34 -0300, Joshua Tagnore wrote:
> List,
>
> I'm having a problem solving a quite trivial matter. I want to
> "SELECT" the content of a CLOB. For example:
>
> SELECT getContent(FILETOCLOB('/filename','server'))...
>
> The issue here is that "getContent" doesnt exists ( its just an
> example for explaining my problem ), and I havent been able to find
> something that does that... Something I tried was:
>
> SELECT FILETOCLOB('/filename','server')::LVARCHAR ...
>
> But this returned the clob identifier. The question is : "how do i
> get the contents of a clob?"
You're not saying what client application or API you're using. The only
method that'll work universally (as far as I know) is to use the
LOTOFILE function to write the CLOB contents into a file. If that
doesn't fit your idea of "get the contents" then you're going to have to
explain what you are trying to accomplish and what client
application/API you're using.
-Carsten