It seems that Oracle versions below 8.0.6 have problems with PHP's way of updating a clob. In versions of Oracle below 8.0.6, the "empty_clob()" function may produce internal errors. As you all know, updating a clob field from within PHP is done this way: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.oci8.php#18041 So the empty_clob() function is NEEDED. But when asking oracle for a solution they say we have to ommit the empty_clob() function.
Is there an alternative way in PHP to update a clob so that empty_clob() isn't needed? (raw SQL is no option because of the maximum query size)
