FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

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
>