FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

This was discussed some months ago on the list, along with a couple ways
to go about solving it.  But, all of them involved breaking the libtds
interface, but we basically decided that was acceptable IIRC, just no one
actually did the work ;-)

Hmmm..it doesn't look like it made its way into the BUGS file either.

Brian

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Norman Palardy wrote:

> I'm using my build of FreeTDS on OS X and noticing some behavioural 
> differences
> 
> For instance the exact same piece of code on Solaris produces the 
> following from the msg_handler that I've installed in a dblib program
> 
> ./sybping SQLSERVER ; echo $?
>     DB-Library message handler <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< a note to myself that the 
> msg handler gets called
>     Msg 4002, Level 14, State 1
>     Server 'pipedevt'
>     Line 1
> 
>          Login failed.
>     DB-Library error handler
>     DB-Library: Login incorrect.
>     255
> 
> On the FreeTDS setup it produces ( Note the missing call to the msg 
> handler )
> 
> ./sybping SQLSERVER ; echo $?
>     DB-Library: Login incorrect.
>     NOT connected
>     0
> 
> Both the interfaces files are pointed at the same SQL Server so that 
> doesn't account for the difference.
> 
> Is there some behavioral difference between FreeTDS and Sybase' dblib 
> that I'm not aware of ?
> If so where might documentation for this be as I don't see mention of 
> this in the FAQ's ?
> 
> 
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