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ORA-22835: Buffer too small for CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW conversion (actual: 764123, maximum: 400

3134376Feb 8 2018 — edited Feb 9 2018

Hi All,

I am try to convert / read data of a clob column but getting ORA-22835.

Kindly requesting you to advise how I can read a CLOB data as rows in oracle database 12.1.

WITH t (order_number, line#, line, debug_message) as (

SELECT order_number, 1, regexp_substr (TO_CHAR (debug_message), '^.*?$', 1, 1, 'm'), substr (TO_CHAR (debug_message), regexp_instr (debug_message, '$', 1, 1, 1, 'm') + 1)

FROM order_logs

WHERE order_number = 789587

  UNION ALL

SELECT order_number, line#+1, regexp_substr(debug_message, '^.*?$', 1, 1, 'm'),  substr(debug_message, regexp_instr(debug_message, '$', 1, 1, 1, 'm')+1)     

  FROM t

  WHERE debug_message IS NOT NULL) CYCLE order_number, line# SET IS_CYCLE to '1' default '0'

  SELECT line#, line

   FROM t

  ORDER BY order_number, line#;

ORA-22835: Buffer too small for CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW conversion (actual: 764123, maximum: 4000)

22835. 00000 -  "Buffer too small for CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW conversion (actual: %s, maximum: %s)"

*Cause:    An attempt was made to convert CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW, where

           the LOB size was bigger than the buffer limit for CHAR and RAW

           types.

           Note that widths are reported in characters if character length

           semantics are in effect for the column, otherwise widths are

           reported in bytes.

*Action:   Do one of the following

           1. Make the LOB smaller before performing the conversion,

           for example, by using SUBSTR on CLOB

           2. Use DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR to convert CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW.

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