Re: [INTERFACES] problem with getBytes

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Rafal Piotrowski (CSCS) wrote:

> Peter Mount wrote:
> > 
> > > One more thing, setBytes method, does work, but only if the array of
> > > bytes is not too big. (I don't know the exact size) :-(
> > 
> > You may need to look at the LargeObject api, which is additional to the
> > JDBC api.
> > 
> 
> I don't want to use the LargeObject API, because I want to make my
> application easy to port to different DBMS. And since LargeObject API is
> not in for example in JDBC for mySQL, I don't want to use it. 

Thats a good point.

> Anyway, I have used it before, and I have noticed the following thing:
> when I store an object, and then try to rewrite the object (the new
> object is bigger), nothing huppens. Well, the size of the object
> changes, but when I retreive the data from the object, it is unchanged
> :-? (i.e. I get the original object, the first one stored).
> I thing that is odd. Something simmilar huppens, when I reduce the size
> of the object and write it. Except that the size of the LargeObject does
> not change, it staies the same, as it was.

That sounds like a problem in the backend - unless a new lo is created,
but your code is refering to the old one.

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