FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > does anyone know the thinking behind reverting this to a 
> > constant value ?
> > 
> > I think I'd made this (kind of) dynamic, so that I could give 
> > it different
> > values depending on whether I was talking TDS 5.0 (Sybase) or 
> > 7.0+ (MS),
> > as the two databases sent numeric data differently (using different
> > numbers of bytes to store different precisions)...
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> This has been changed for many reason:
> - connect to Sybase/MSSQL from same program at same time
> - call converts before connect to db and act always the same way
> If TDS7/8 return numeric with different bytes we should 
> correct this in
> token.c (as we already make for byte ordering)
> 
I did some test...
TDS7 return always 17 bytes (1 for sign and 16 for number) little endian
TDS8 return 5/9/13/17 bytes (removing leading zeroes, precision do not
count...)

freddy77

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