[freetds] bigint data type
James K. Lowden
jklowden at schemamania.org
Tue Dec 23 18:56:01 EST 2003
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, joshua stein <jcs at rt.fm> wrote:
> > however, i'm seeing the opposite. i'm running 0.62.dev.20031220 and
> > am getting errors from freetds when selecting data from bigint
> > columns:
> >
> > Unknown size 8 for SYBINTN
>
> ok, i figured it out. the old server had this sql server in its
> freetds.conf with a version of 7.0, but the new one had it as 8.0
> (it's a sql 2000 server). i changed it to 7.0 and the code works
> without any errors.
That sounds a lot like a bug. Thanks for the report, Joshua.
I can't easily test any fixes for this, because I don't have access to a
TDS 8.0 machine except at work, where I don't hack FreeTDS unless
necessary for work reasons.
--jkl
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