FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, newbie123 wrote:

> does anybody know the structure of the table tds_typeinfo?
> I've install freetds0.53 and unixOdbc2.2.1 for lotus connect to sybase11
> on linux platform. I can use isql correctly in linux box, but lotus seems
> to use "SELECT * FROM tds_typeinfo where SQL_DATA_TYPE=?" from odbc.c,
> and all threads freeize if I comment the line.
> very thanks for your reply and advise.
> 

Look at src/odbc/tables.sql in the tarball and run that file against your 
database if you need SQLGetTypeInfo() to work correctly.  Many, many odbc 
programs do not use that call, so i'm hesitant to require installing it.  
jkl, we should add to faq and a small entry in UG about when it's needed.

Brian