[freetds] the max length of a column?

Frediano Ziglio freddy77 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 04:17:41 EDT 2010


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2010/7/6 Difei Qi <fredericqi at gmail.com>:
> hello,in my database I have a column with the type varchar(500),
> but when I used as followings to get the length of the column , I get 255 ?
>     pcol->name=dbcolname(m_pdbprocess,j);
>     pcol->type=dbcoltype(m_pdbprocess,j);
>     pcol->size=dbcollen(m_pdbprocess,j);   -----this is just 255? while I
> has a 500 length column.
>
> I tried more length column such as varchar(1000), but dbcollen only turns
> 255 to me,why?
> And how can I fixed the bug? Thanks~
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