FreeTDS Development Group

["Myers Carpenter" <myers AT fil.org>]

Although I've seen messages saying that the TEXT datatype is supported with 
MSSQL I can't get it to work.

Trying to access a table with php cause a Fatal error which leaves you 
browers thinking the server gone. "FATAL:  emalloc():  Unable to allocate -
2147483648 bytes" is the error in apache's error.log.

Using sqsh I get:
1> select * from financial_explanations;
2> go
dsp_desc_bind: Memory allocation failure for column #8

2147483647 is the upper limit to how much a TEXT column can hold.  

thanks,

myers

(of course I'm realizing that why the heck do I need 2GB of storage and 
changing to varchar's which can hold 8kB.)