Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars)

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Tue Jun 5 12:25:49 EDT 2001


> >> Ok, that is a known bug in 0.51.  It's fixed in CVS.

> 
> I've got a bit more info about my problem.  My client is Digital Unix 4.0F
> with the latest freetds.snapshot.tgz (May 30 I think) using the TDS 7.0
> protocol.  Server is a Windows NT 4.0 box with MS SQL Server 7.0.
> 
> When I select a field of type bit which allows NULLs, I get the above
> Unknown marker errors.  Selecting bit fields which do _not_ allow NULLs does
> not cause this error.
> 
> Brian, when you say "fixed in CVS" do you mean after that last snapshot was
> taken?  Should I really be grabbing source from the CVS repository?
> 
> My fix was to change the table design so that the field does not allow
> NULLs; everything worked great after that.


Ok, I know I fixed this problem! I'll have to look tonight and see if
maybe it didn't make it into CVS or other strangeness.

Brian



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