FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

Much doings, mostly because Frediano has been *very* busy.  See ChangeLog
delta below for details.  

Many changes went into the conversion code.  Please try it out if you can.
 We don't have a complete any-to-any conversion matrix test program yet,
so your feedback is especially valuable.  There are three recent threads
on that subject that I think are unfixed: 

1. "VAR or not VAR?", needs close examination
2. "Issue with IMAGE type in latest build", may need "0x" prepended to
output in some cases (definitely not dbconvert(), though).  
3. "Convert seems totally broken now", may be refined in #1.

I nominate the TODO list to act as listkeeper of stuff to do.  I added
some comments there and made a couple of entries.  Brian, it would be good
if you put your feet up on the desk for a little while when you're relaxed
and optimistic, and diddled with that file.  There are some things in it
that I think are completed, and other things we want to do that aren't
mentioned.  

A few changes went into configure.in.  That means ye of the CVS will have
to rerun autogen.sh.  

I also applied the sensible patch from York Ye, allowing a servername to
have a port appended:

        $ src/apps/tsql -S sandbox:4100 -U saw -P 'buzz'
        1> 

Thank you, York.  Please send us a "diff -u" next time; it makes our lives
easier and saves you the work of writing instructions.  Also thanks Eric,
for your freebcp patch.  I reworked it a little after applying your patch,
but I think you'll recognize the results.  
OK, I think I've said enough.  Please have fun.  

--jkl


$ cvs diff -u  -r 1.131 ChangeLog
jklowden AT cvs.freetds.sourceforge.net's password: 
Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/freetds/freetds/ChangeLog,v
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retrieving revision 1.138
diff -u -r1.131 -r1.138
--- ChangeLog   18 Aug 2002 19:45:42 -0000      1.131
+++ ChangeLog   22 Aug 2002 04:27:01 -0000      1.138
@@ -1,3 +1,45 @@
+Wed Aug 21 23:28:58 EDT 2002   JK Lowden <jklowden AT schemamania.org>
+       * src/apps/freebcp.c    better diagnostics and -v support
+       * src/tds/asprintf.c    PD version of function for systems that
lack it.
+       * configure.in          support vasprintf test, fix '==' error in
thread checking
+       * src/dblib/dblib.c     use vasprintf in dbfcmd
+       * src/tds/Makefile.am   added asprintf.c to list of sources
+       
+Wed Aug 21 21:42:54 CEST 2002   Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
+       * src/tds/convert.c:
+       - convert from text using char conversions
+       - return just fail converting from ntext avoiding crashes
+       - do not warning on missed conversion if conversion impossible
+       - added many TODO for missed conversion
+       - return TDS_FAIL converting from char to binary if wrong syntax
+       - add conversion from bit to binary
+       - fixed conversion from money to char in Bill code 
+         (commented but not surely)
+       - added conversion from money to money4
+
+Wed Aug 21 20:31:57 CEST 2002   Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
+       * configure.in:
+       - option to enable thread safety
+
+Wed Aug 21 14:38:54 CEST 2002   Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
+       * src/dblib/bcp.c src/tds/convert.c src/tds/login.c:
+       * src/tds/numeric.c src/tds/token.c src/tds/unittests/t0008.c:
+       - make g__numeric_bytes_per_prec const solving problem
+       - connecting to both Sybase and mssql at the same time
+
+Wed Aug 21 14:00:23 CEST 2002   Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
+       * src/ctlib/unittests/t0007.c src/ctlib/unittests/Makefile.am:
+       * src/ctlib/unittests/t0003.c:
+       - test for string length
+       * src/ctlib/ct.c:
+       - do not return garbage data on string
+       * src/tds/token.c:
+       - fixed set of cur_row_size for TDS_NUMERIC data
+
+Wed Aug 21 13:38:18 CEST 2002   Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
+       * src/tds/login.c include/tds.h.in:
+       - temporary fix for password limit length
+
 Fri Aug 18 21:32:06 CEST 2002   Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT angelfire.com>
        * src/ctlib/unittests/t0006.c:
        - add some tests for converting from char to money