FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:44:59AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:

> Your lousy search skills or our lousy search engine. ;-)  I wrote up a bit 
> of a description for it on Oct 26 under the subject 'Re: set textsize 
> 1048576 fails'.  Not sure if we are hitting the same problem or not.

Hmm, I do remember that thread, but assumed it was unrelated since I
never explicitly attempted to change the textsize.

If I include 'set textsize 1024' at the beginning of the query, then the
query succeeds without memory allocation problems.

> For anyone that is interested by the way, I'm working on TDS dissector for 
> ethereal in my <sarcasm>copious amounts of spare time</sarcasm>, and could 
> use some testers once it's stable enough.

:D

> I'd also like to see the iconv support finished before then, which 
> shouldn't affect the releases stability since it defaults to current 
> behaviour unless switched on.  I'm going to go through a couple more pre 
> releases I think, because I really really really want a stable release 
> this time....seems like I've blown it on ever release since 0.50.

With the exception of this one text-handling glitch, I have not yet
found any problems with the current CVS -- but then, I am not a heavy
MS SQL user, so I'm sure there are others much better at regression
testing than I am. ;)

> Steve, can you give me some more details on this?  I created a table
> with a text column and filled it with about a 5k entry and then
> selected it back using sqsh 2.1 and it worked flawlessly.  I'm using
> SQL Server 7.0 GA on Win2k SP2.  FreeTDS is configured with tds
> version = 7.0 in the freetds.conf file.

I would guess that this is a change either in sqsh 2.1, or in the
defaults used by SQL 7.0 GA; I get the same memory allocation error when
using either DBD::Sybase 0.91 or 0.93.  Haven't installed sqsh 2.1 yet,
but that's next on my list... I'll be sure to let you know how the
behavior I see with 2.1 compares.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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