FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mark Schaal wrote:

> > Hmm...I don't have timestamps to compare but varbinary seems to work fine:
> > 
> [..deleted..]
> > 
> > I'll look further, but it does seem strange that sqsh and DBD::Sybase
> > would return different values.
> > 
> > Brian
> 
> I've found two problems which may/may not be related. 
> (1) SYBBINARY doesn't work.  That's a simple matter of adding a 
>     case to tds_convert() to send binary to the varbinary function.
Shouldn't affect timestamps, fixed it anyway though.

> (2) SYBVARBINARY isn't getting sent the correct column sizes.  I
>     define a column as varbinary(4).
>       Input:  0x4444          0x88888888
>       Output: 0x44440000      0x88888888
>     So the convert function is getting the column size and not the
>     actual data size.
Brown paper bag time for letting that one through! :(

Actually, varbinary has to be redone from the tds layer on up for this.
Ack! 

> 
> Since you're looking at it and I don't need binary support here, I'll
> move on to something else.
> 
> Mark
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