Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars)
Brian Bruns
camber at ais.org
Sat Jun 9 21:57:59 EDT 2001
Ok, I fixed it but had a little snafu checking it in. I just fixed the
problem and checked it in, so go ahead and give it another try.
Brian
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > >> 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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