FreeTDS Development Group

["Darryl Friesen" <Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca>]

> I seem to recognize this one... I think MS returns the maximum
> possible size of the object, instead of the actual size, and I use
> the size value to allocate memory for the object in ct_bind() (which
> of course fails in your case).

Man, is that ever dumb (on Microsoft's part, not yours).  Makes things just
a bit less than useful, doesn't it?

My next step, unless anyone has any wonderful suggestions (please, please)
is to implement Eric Deutsch's patch/hack to FreeTDS to malloc something
less than 2GB and hope I choose a value big enough.  :)

Thanks to everyone.  It's a nice change of pace to find a list where
problems are discussed openly without finger pointing, and where the
developer's respond quickly and provide real suggestions and help.

- Darryl

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  Darryl Friesen, B.Sc., Programmer/Analyst    Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca
  Education & Research Technology Services,     http://gollum.usask.ca/
  Department of Computing Services,
  University of Saskatchewan
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