[Zope] Zsql and oracle CLOB column

harshad behere hbehere at zeomega.com
Wed May 27 06:28:17 EDT 2009


Dear list,

While inserting data into one of the oracle table's CLOB column using 
zsql via python script, we observed that zope process (running in debug 
mode) is getting terminated/killed if length of text data >= 4094 with 
message on command prompt

Input string too long, limit 4096

Whereas  for text data with length >=4001 and <=4093 - It throws 
following error
OperationalError on <Products.mxODBCZopeDA.ZopeDA.DatabaseConnection 
"DSN=test_clob_oracle" thread 3672/3672 at 0x3ac3530>: ('HY000', 1704, 
'[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-01704: string literal too long\n', 6113)

python script details:
print context.clob_zsql_test(i_description='A'*4095).
return printed

zsql details -
INSERT INTO CLOB_TEST(description) VALUES(<dtml-sqlvar i_description 
type="string">)

Table/column details :
id - number
description - clob

Where as if we use mxODBCZopeDA execute API with following insert query 
syntax 
string_value = 'A'*5000
query = """ INSERT INTO CLOB_TEST(document) VALUES(?) """
result = test_connection.execute(query, string_value)

it works fine even with text data having length > 10000

After googling on the same found that execute method uses/support 
parameters binding (is it similar to oracle bind varibles ? thats may be 
reason why it works well). Do we have similar support for zsql or is 
there other workaround ?

Configuration/other details are as follows :

RDBMS : Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.1.0
ODBC used : Oracle ODBC which shipped with Oracle-Client-10g
Python adapter : mxODBC Python ODBC Interface - 2.1
Related Zope Product : mxODBCZopeDA-1.0.10

Zope : Zope 2.11.1-final
Python : python 2.4.4
Operating system  : win32

ZEO setup : Yes
No of ZEO nodes : one
Threads per ZEO node : 10

Any kind of pointers/suggestions would be of great help.

Thanking you,
Harshad.


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