On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Norbert Sendetzky <norb...@linuxnetworks.de
> wrote:
> Hi Mariano
>
> > Hi Norbert! How are you ? Here with 7 cm of snow :)
>
> Nice. Is that already more than you would like to have? ;-)
>
Fortunately, not yet ;)
> > 4) Suppose I have a row with a CLOB field of 1Gb (to say something)....I
> > would like to prevent to load such field in my Smalltalk image as it will
> > probably crash everything. Is there a way to limit this, I mean, to put a
> > maximum ? is there a way to ask the size before loading ? this depends
> on
> > the way large objects are managed (normal or special functions) ?
>
> You can only limit the retrieved size in the freetds based backends (mssql,
> sybase). All others don't provide this functionality.
>
Ok....but can I do it from OpenDBX ? if true, how ?
> If the backend supports the odbx_lo_* functions, you can retrieve the the
> content of the large object in chunks. Providing a function to retrieve the
> size fails because Oracle has implemented its own semantic (returns number
> of
> characters instead of number of bytes).
>
Ok, perfect.
Thanks for the answers.
Mariano
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