Hi -- It's been a very long time since I looked at the Oracle DB support in APR ... my apologies!
I bumped into a bug recently (actually, in APR-util 1.5.x but it's also in APR trunk) where CLOBs are not readable due to a failed check on the val->type in dbd_oracle_get_entry() in dbd/apr_dbd_oracle.c. In the surrounding switch statement, val->type has been determined to be one of the Oracle SQLT_BLOB or SQLT_CLOB values. Then, to handle the CLOB case specifically, val->type is tested again but now it is incorrectly checked against APR_DBD_TYPE_CLOB instead of SQLT_CLOB. That always fails, so CLOBs are treated as BLOBs, insufficient space may be allocated, and then trouble ensues. The patch below has been running in production for a long time; I just never realized I hadn't reported it to the APR list. Again, my apologies! I also added a patch for the test/dbd.c which enables it to succeed on Oracle (at least, on our versions of Oracle). The trailing semicolons in the individual SQL INSERTs otherwise cause Oracle to issue an ORA-00911 "invalid character" error. I hope these are both relatively uncontroversial! Thanks very much, Chris. =========================================================================== --- dbd/apr_dbd_oracle.c.orig 2016-01-19 17:22:12.878414056 -0800 +++ dbd/apr_dbd_oracle.c 2016-01-19 17:22:45.692414935 -0800 @@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@ break; } - if (val->type == APR_DBD_TYPE_CLOB) { + if (val->type == SQLT_CLOB) { #if 1 /* Is this necessary, or can it be defaulted? */ sql->status = OCILobCharSetForm(dbd_oracle_env, sql->err, =========================================================================== --- test/dbd.c.orig 2016-01-19 17:21:45.370413319 -0800 +++ test/dbd.c 2016-01-19 17:21:57.510413644 -0800 @@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ rv = apr_dbd_query(driver, handle, &nrows, statement); if (rv) { const char* stmt[] = { - "INSERT into apr_dbd_test (col1) values ('foo');", - "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('wibble', 'other', 5);", - "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('wibble', 'nothing', 5);", - "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('qwerty', 'foo', 0);", - "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('asdfgh', 'bar', 1);", + "INSERT into apr_dbd_test (col1) values ('foo')", + "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('wibble', 'other', 5)", + "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('wibble', 'nothing', 5)", + "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('qwerty', 'foo', 0)", + "INSERT into apr_dbd_test values ('asdfgh', 'bar', 1)", NULL }; printf("Compound insert failed; trying statements one-by-one\n") ; ===========================================================================