FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

James Ponder writes:
 > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 08:02:49AM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
 > > Here is the problem.  The bindfmt is 66! which is totally not valid, it
 > 
 > I made ct_bind print out the given format, and it was 66.  So I added
 > a printf before every ct_bind in DBD::Sybase and re-installed.  It printed
 > 0.  It got the string 'hello' without a null terminator.  I cried ;(
 > 
 > Sigh sigh sigh.  I think the scenario probably went...
 > 
 >  * I didn't have FreeTDS or DBD::Sybase.  I installed 0.50 and 0.23.  There
 >    was a bug in 0.50 which meant nulls were added.
 >  * I upgraded FreeTDS and somehow DBD::Sybase wasn't re-installed (although
 >    I remember re-installing it <shrug>).  The bug was fixed in FreeTDS but
 >    now DBD::Sybase was passing the wrong value and so I still got null
 >    terminated strings.
 >  * I have now re-installed DBD::Sybase and don't get any nulls.

Does freetds support the CS_VER_STRING ct_config() property?
If it doesn't I'd suggest adding it - it's really usefull in a not so
stable environment to make sure that a particular client is linked
with the correct version of the library. DBD::Sybase will return this
information by checking the $dbh->{syb_oc_version} attribute. For
example:

kiruna (8:03AM):11 > perl -MDBI -e '$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:", "sa"); 
print "$dbh->{syb_oc_version}\n"'
Sybase Client-Library/12.0/P/SPARC/Solaris 2.5.1/1/OPT/Mon Oct  4 12:07:29 
1999

Michael
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