FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Bill Thompson [mailto:thompbil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> Sent: June 6, 2002 11:30 AM
> 
> I think I've got to the bottom of the column widths for dates in sqsh,
> when it is linked with FreeTDS.
> 
> If you do a "select getdate()", the code in sqsh (1.7) 
> doesn't seem to use
> ct_bind() to do the data conversion. Instead it decides to do the data
> conversion itself, which it does by calling cs_convert(). Our
> implementation of cs_convert() does not have the fancy 
> padding/trimming
> code which we have in our ct_bind() code, hence we don't 
> properly trim the
> resulting data.

Bill, 

Wow!  That's great!  If you'll post the patch, I'll apply it as soon as I
can.  

It sounds like we're going to be able to iron out the wrinkles much faster
than I thought.  I'm glad it turns out that ct-lib needed fixing, and not
your conversion routines.  

Thanks and regards, 

--jkl