Hello Tim, This seems to have fixed the problem. Is there a plan to patch it with the next DBD release?
Thanks for your time. Deepak. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Hassall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:37 PM To: Gaur, Deepak; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DBI fetch gets SEGEMENTATION FAULT with new ORACLE date data type (TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE). Gaur, Deepak wrote: > Hello To All DBI Users :-), > > I was trying to use DBI with a new oracle date data type called > "TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE" but the code comes back with a > "Segmentation Fault(core dumped)" error while trying to fetch data > from the cursor. > > I was just wondering if these new data types are supported in DBI yet > or I am doing something wrong or there is a different way of handling > these new datatypes. > > I was thinking to migrate all my oracle DB tables using DATE data > type to TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE, so that i can use the > time_zone session attribute from oracle to get the right local time > for lot of our international clients. I have our application code in > both PERL and Java. I m not able to figure out how i can make it to > work for perl 5.6.1, although Java code seems to accept this new > date data type without any problems with the new JDBC driver. > > Is it just me or is it a known problem? See this previous thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20030514 214011.7170D29873%40chronozon.artofdns.com&rnum=4&prev=/&frame=on (patch attached to end of my reply, the 2nd message in that thread) -- Andy Hassall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) icq(5747695) (http://www.andyh.co.uk) Space: disk usage analysis tool (http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space)
