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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: compile time flags TDS42, 46 and 50
  • Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:36:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Gregg Jensen wrote:

> Arno Pedusaar wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Back from vacation, with fingers itching for coding :-)
> >
> > After reading the source, it occurred that these flags are
> > used only in one place- namely, in src/tds/mem.c: tds_alloc_login()
> > while there are functions for changing the version in run time.
> >
> > Maybe we should set the default version to 4.2 and get rid of them?
> >
>
> This would probably be OK, as it might ease the confusion when compiling.
> The only
> thing is which version to set the default to. Also, if any of the parent
> libraries
> have a separate reference to a default protocol it should be set to the
> same default
> value (ie, dblib allows you to set the version before you have logged in,
> and
> currently you have to have a populated login structure to call
> tds_set_version).
>
> Gregg
>
Sybase obviously pulls this off...as OpenClient talks to System 10 and >
servers with 5.0 and older servers with 4.2...this must be negotiated
somehow, that would the best way of handling this....

Brian






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