[freetds] Question about max size of a dbrpcparam

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Mon Oct 13 10:23:47 EDT 2008


Navdeep Shergill wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Navdeep Shergill
> <jatshergill at gmail.com>wrote:
> > well.. i set it to 4096 and it worked!!!
> >
> > I am amazed. :)
> >
> > Now the question is what else will this impact?? Meaning changing the
> > block size like this..> > 
> > Can someone comment on the blocksize parameter in the freetds.conf
> > flag? is it safe to change it?
> 
> Can someone comment on the blocksize parameter in the freetds.conf flag?
> is it safe to change it?

It's safe.  I don't understand why larger blocks work and smaller ones
don't, and ISTR that we automatically set the blocksize to 4096 on TDS7+
connections.  But I'm glad it works for you.  You might have tripped on a
subtle TCP implementation bug.  

--jkl


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