FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:

> (Hey, hey, the gang's all here, a FreeTDS Saturday. :)
>

Just back from lunch.  #167 on sour dough....Mmmmmm
 
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:28:56 -0400 (EDT), "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Savitri Sarangi wrote:
> > 
> > dbopen is a #define in the header file.  Are you trying to link freetds
> > to an existing application compiled against openclient?
> 
> Just to remind, dbopen() became the exported name about a month ago;
> DBOPEN is in the .h.  That's what Sybase does (of late).  

how are we working around the dbm conflict then?
 
> > > dbaltbind, dbcolbrowse, dbsetlname etc, etc) I then
> > > checked FreeTDS libraries libsybdb.a, libtds.a, libct.a for presence
> > > of these functions. No, they are not found.
> > 
> > These function are not yet implemented.  To be honest they are not used 
> > that often, and I believe you are the first person to ask for them! 
> > 
> > dbsetlname() is not in the dblib manual, I thought is was purely an 
> > internal function actually (all the DBSETL* routines call this, 
> > inefficient).  
> 
> Savitri, do you have the source code for the program you're linking to
> FreeTDS?  What are the calling semanatics of dbsetlname()?  It doesn't
> appear in either vendors' documentation.  

ugh, it takes a char * to the field name, and an int...?  memory fails
 
> > dbaltbind will be mostly a duplication of the existing bind routines,
> > but may need some underpinnings. 
> 
> dbaltbind binds a compute column to a program variable.  I never used it
> myself (too much work for too little result; it's easy enough to do your
> own summaries) but is it really a duplication of something else?  

I mean it will be basically a dup of the regrow column binding.