1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
index 81dcfde30d..aff27369ad 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/backends/tests.py
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ class Callproc(unittest.TestCase):
             return True
         else:
             return True
+            
+class LongString(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_long_string(self):
+        # If the backend is Oracle, test that we can save a text longer
+        # than 4000 chars and read it properly
+        if settings.DATABASE_ENGINE == 'oracle':
+            c = connection.cursor()
+            c.execute('CREATE TABLE ltext ("TEXT" NCLOB)')
+            long_str = ''.join([unicode(x) for x in xrange(4000)])
+            c.execute('INSERT INTO ltext VALUES (%s)',[long_str])
+            c.execute('SELECT text FROM ltext')
+            row = c.fetchone()
+            c.execute('DROP TABLE ltext')
+            self.assertEquals(long_str, row[0].read())
 
 def connection_created_test(sender, **kwargs):
     print 'connection_created signal'