Got a presumably very quick question.

I'm writing a perl script. lets say i have a variable that's > 8k
, for arguments sake it's 64k.

How can i insert this into a database, do i need large objects ?
and if so, do i use the lo_import ? for some reason it seems that
this is only for files..

below is what i have but it doesn't seem to work..

jeff=> \d test
Table = test
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
| Field | Type | Length|
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
| blurb | text | var |
| message | oid | 4 |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+

***************** code ********************

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbname=narf host=narf port=narf",'narf','','Pg',{'AutoCommit' => 0});
if (!$dbh) {
exit print "Could not connect: $DBI::errstr\n";
}

## lets create the large value here...
## this string is 64K (2^16)

my $largestring = 'x';
for (my $i=0;$i < 16 ;$i++) {
$largestring = $largestring . $largestring;
}

my $statement = $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO test values('something',lo_import($largestring));");
$statement->execute();
$statement->finish();

$dbh->commit;
$dbh->disconnect;

thanks for the help.

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