FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

According to the dbsetnull() documentation the code should return a empty 
string.  Full support for dbsetnull would be nice I though, anyone wanna 
take a crack at it?  The patch is a good start though.

Brian

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Mark J. Lilback wrote:

> Do you have an indicator variable bound? I normally call dbnullbind 
> so I'll know if it is null.
> 
> I don't have my standard with me, but does SQL allow a text column 
> with an empty string? If so, then you really do need to check the 
> indicator variable. If you can't have an empty string, then I don't 
> see a problem with what you propose.
> 
> 
> At 5:29 AM -0800 3/14/02, Chris Eleveld wrote:
> >I have an odd problem when I make a query that returns
> >a null in a column to a bound with NTBSTRINGBIND
> >program.  The code is written in such a way that under
> >Sybase it would appear a null column results in the
> >char * being terminated as a zero length string.  This
> >appears to be the db-lib behavior under Sybase.  Under
> >FreeTDS however the bound variable just retains it's
> >last value.  Does any one see a problem with adding an
> >else case in db-lib.c the function
> >buffer_transfer_bound_data() to the
> 
>