# Re: Populating 'long' data column with Ruby OCI8 (trying aga

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-populating-long-data-column-with-ruby-oci8-trying-aga/52764>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 18, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-populating-long-data-column-with-ruby-oci8-trying-aga/52764 "2006-01-18T21:04:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-populating-long-data-column-with-ruby-oci8-trying-aga/52764/1 "2006-01-18T21:04:41Z")

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> -----Original Message-----  
> From: KUBO Takehiro [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]  
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:15 AM  
> To: ruby-talk ML  
> Subject: Re: Populating ‘long’ data column with Ruby OCI8  
> (trying again, need a solution badly)

> ```
> datasize = 100 * 1024
> end
> 
> ```

Making that configurable would be good. I suspect that’s what the Perl  
DBI LongReadLength attribute does.

Regards,

Dan