FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

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