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19.11.7 Determining the type of a LOB

The function ora-lob-internal-lob-p returns whether it is internal (that is BLOB, CLOB or NCLOB) or not (that is BFILE or CFILE). The function ora-lob-element-type returns the LISP element type that best corresponds to the LOB locator. This will be one of (unsigned-byte 8) for BLOB and BFILE, or base-char or simple-char for CLOB, NCLOB and CFILE, depending on the charset of the LOB object.

It is possible to distinguish between CLOB and NCLOB by looking at the result of ora-lob-char-set-form. It returns 2 for NCLOB and 1 for CLOB.


LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual - 22 Dec 2009

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