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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] mars?
  • Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:07:10 +0000


On 15/gen/2012, at 16:46, Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I just found this freedts thingy,
> and i read through the FAQ which states that MARS
> is not supported, and some reason why so.
>
> However, a bit further down, there is a passus that
> suggests it _might_ be supported in the future?
>

As usual I have a patch, but currently I'm unable to bring it to a proper
state :(

> So my question is if there are any plans to do so?
>

No!

> Reason I ask is that I work on a system, that was developed
> many years ago (1990-ish) and that is uses the concept
> of opening a cursor, looping through the recordset,
> and use some of those values retrieved to update other
> tables within that loop.
> It was developed on Mimer, then ported to Oracle.
>
> Last year, I ported it to MS sql-server, and boom/bang/crash,
> the mars feature came up. I had not heard of dbs not supporting it
> before, so I was a bit surprised.
>

Using odbc you can change cursors type in order to achieve this behavior.
Ctlib should support cursor too but I don't remember the state.

> Now, I found this Raspberri Pi system
> <http://www.raspberrypi.org>
> based on Arm and debian.
>
> I thought it would be nice to show scalability by
> porting the system to this device.
>
> There's no Oracle client libs for arm, so I was very happy
> to see freetds. But a bit sad when this mars-thingy
> showed up.
>
> --
> /Björn

bye
freddy77



  • Re: [freetds] mars?, Frediano Ziglio, 02/06/2012

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