Re: Blob updates through isqlperl?

It never rains -- it only ever pours. This happens to be the third time today I've seen this question, and although one of them was a direct-to-me email, the other was also on c.d.i. However, the outgoing posting may not have filtered through to your news system, so here's the info you need to find it... See my response to a posting with the header information: }Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:49:47 -0800 }From: johnl@informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) }To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu, jkern@saturn5-atm.nrl.navy.mil }Subject: Re: Update a text field }X-Informix-List-Id: <list.13498> You should also subscribe to the dbi-users@fugue.com mailing list (subscribe via http://www.fugue.com/dbi). >From: Aura <aura@prodomain.com> >Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:32:04 -0500 >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.35082> > >I have been using isqlperl quite successfully for over 3 years. >Now I am at a stage where I need to update blob columns. >Is there any way I can do this? The man page does not seem to think so. > >I am willing to move to DBI/DBD if blob updates are allowed to it. > >My specs: > >Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5.1, Informix 7.22. > >I use perl 4.036 * isqlperl 1.2 patch1. > >I also have perl 5.003 installed and am not having a fun time making >DBI-0.77 and DBD-Informix 0.50 work Please enlighten me with what your problems are. I get it to work out of the box with 7.21.UC1, but I'm using gcc throughout. If you're running SUNWspro CC, then there may be problems I'm unaware of... Also, use cc to created shared libraries, not ld. This is a Perl configuration option. >but am willing to put it a lot more >effort if I know its going to let me update blob columns. No improvement -- it's a feature-hole (aka bug) in Informix-ESQL/C. See the other article I mentioned above. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>