FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

I've checked in some initial implementations for sending 
TDS_COL_NAME_TOKEN and TDS_COL_INFO_TOKEN PDUs so that TDS 4.2 should
theoretically work with the server libs.

What we are really missing is some convience routines to load the result
set and row buffer structures (the equivalent of binding on the client
side).  I may take a crack at that here, since I'm trying to keep my hands
off the client code, lest I break something before the release.

BTW, regarding the release, I'm trying to track down a TDS 7 text problem
and then I'll put out a pre2 release (today maybe...no promises).

Brian

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:

> Antonio,
> 
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Antonio Ognio wrote:
> 
> >      Well, I must admit i'm very happy with your response. I believe
> > there's a need for this project and many people will be supporting at
> > all levels starting with you. Thanks a lot, I'll be bugging you with
> > silly newbie questions for some time.. hope to behave :)
> 
> >      Ok, definitely the real thing has to go in C. But there's a
> > little problem: I'm not really fluent in C. I'll surely study all
> > the sources and will do my best in learning more/hacking the C code
> > you're providing me with.
> 
> If the final product will be written in C, it doesn't make sense to me to 
> do a
> prototype in PHP.  Because of all the binary structures you'll have to work
> with, I think writing the conversion code in C (or perl) will be much easier
> than writing it in PHP, and if it will be written in C in the end no matter
> what, why write the code twice?
> 
> It's true that PHP will make it easy for you to send the SQL statements to 
> the
> PostgreSQL back-end, but it will also make it very hard for you to extract 
> the
> SQL statements from the TDS stream:  either you will have to rewrite all of
> the FreeTDS server code in PHP, or you will have to compile it as a PHP
> module.  In addition, PHP doesn't work very well as a language for daemons.
> PostgreSQL provides client libraries, FreeTDS provides the server code you
> need; it would be much easier, IMHO, to hook these two pieces together 
> using C
> code.  I think it would be worth your time to learn C for this reason.
> 
> HTH,
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
> 
> 
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