I have the following query (column log is of type CLOB):
UPDATE table SET log=? where id=?
The query above works fine when using the setAsciiStream method to put a value longer than 4000 characters into the log column.
But instead of replacing the value, I want to append it, hence my query looks like this:
UPDATE table SET log=log||?||chr(10) where id=?
The above query DOES NOT work any more and I get the following error:
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
It looks to me like you have to use a PL/SQL block to do what you want. The following works for me, assuming there's an entry with id
1:
import oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver;
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
public class JDBCTest {
// How much test data to generate.
public static final int SIZE = 8192;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Generate some test data.
byte[] data = new byte[SIZE];
for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) {
data[i] = (byte) (64 + (i % 32));
}
ByteArrayInputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
DriverManager.registerDriver(new OracleDriver());
Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection(
"jdbc:oracle:thin:@some_database", "user", "password");
String sql =
"DECLARE\n" +
" l_line CLOB;\n" +
"BEGIN\n" +
" l_line := ?;\n" +
" UPDATE table SET log = log || l_line || CHR(10) WHERE id = ?;\n" +
"END;\n";
PreparedStatement stmt = c.prepareStatement(sql);
stmt.setAsciiStream(1, stream, SIZE);
stmt.setInt(2, 1);
stmt.execute();
stmt.close();
c.commit();
c.close();
}
}