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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:25:27 -0400 (EDT)


Hmmm... this is a case where DBD::Sybase is dealing with some assumptions
which MS went and changed. Is the proper place to deal with this your
code or mine? I'm inclined to make a new config file option "default text
size" and allow users to set it in the freetds.conf file. Whaddya think?

Brian


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Michael Peppler wrote:

> Darryl Friesen writes:
> > >> Eric, if you issue the query "set textsize 10000" prior to selecting
> > >> the text column does that also fix the problem?
> > >
> > > Yes it does! If I just do:
> >
> > Hmm. Doesn't work for me here. I still get a
> >
> > Out of memory during "large" request for -2147479552 bytes
> >
> > in my Perl script (which uses DBD::Sybase)
>
> 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).
>
> Michael
>





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