FreeTDS Development Group

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

> 
> Aah,
> 
> it occurs to that this may be why Jim's "conversion status" 
> report (using
> convert_acid) reports that numeric conversions are broken for 
> TDS 5.0 ?
> 
> does that make sense ?
> 

TDS5??
Should be the unique that work :)
FreeTDS use Sybase coding...
I'll do some more test (I already test tds_convert for numeric, not for
wire)...

> I remember someone raising the (quite valid) objection that 
> you could call
> dbconvert etc. when not logged in to a database and that therefore my
> method of allocating g__numeric_bytes_per_precision on receipt of the
> login ack was flawed. perhaps we should reinstate the dynamic
> initialisation of this array, but also keep the defaulted 
> values for this
> eventuality.
> 

No, I don't think so...
Note: this array tell how many bytes are needed to store a precision while
TDS8 one is only the bytes that pass on wire... is completely a different
meaning. Also for TDS8 numeric should only be zero padded to obtain number.

> BTW, I think I have found a way to resolve the "long long" 
> controversy for
> money values, allowing us to revert to the definition of 
> TDS_MONEY as two
> 4 byte integers. I'll keep you posted once I have finished testing...
> 

Good !!

freddy77

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