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SQLcl 26.1 seems to hang on spooling to a local file

Itamar TzadokApr 29 2026

I'm running a script that calls apex_export.get_application to get the export file content and then spools it to a local file.

In previous versions of the extension this worked well for any file size. With recent versions which use sqlcl 26.1, it is very slow for small files and hangs on large files (e.g. 15M).

I've tried to run the script in an external terminal with sqlcl 25.4 and sqlcl 26.1 and have gotten the same result, that is, the script is fast and completes successfully with 25.4 but hangs with 26.1.

Anyone else has encountered a similar issue?

Is there a way to tell the extension to use an external instance of sqlcl instead of the integral one so that I direct it to use the sqlcl 25.4?

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