FreeTDS Development Group

["Scott C. Gray" <gray AT voicenet.com>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Lowden, James K wrote:

> Brian, 
> 
> Rather than a freetds.conf file, might it be simpler to extend the
> interfaces file?  I think it can have pretty much anything in it; the
> libraries probably look for what they need and skip the rest.  I think the
> run-time parameters are easier to manage if they're all in one place.  

I have added to my (someday-to-be-released-if-i-can-scrape-other-
things-off-my-page) version of the tds library (well, actually 
my new cs-library) some extensions to configure freetds in 
comments.  For example, you can override the protocol 
by doing:

   #PROTO: tds7.0
   SERVER
      query tcp ether server 5000

where the #PROTO line will override the 'ether' setting for this
and all following entries. Generically, my parser looks for:

   #OPTION: value[,value ...] [OPTION: value[,value...] ...]

This allows server entries to be consistant with the Sybase model, 
but freetds can get hints as well.

-scott

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