FreeTDS Development Group

["Eric Deutsch" <edeutsch AT systemsbiology.org>]

Hi, I downloaded 0.60-rc3, compiled and tested under both Linux x86 and
Solaris on SPARC.  I tested DBD::Sybase under both.  Everything I tested
seems to work with two exceptions:

1) DBD::ODBC doesn't work very well, but I think it was decided that
this wasn't going to be addressed before 0.60 release, so that's fine.
It seems to be as functional as it ever was.

2) I accidentally discovered that under TDS 4.2, fields of type CHAR do
not seem to come back padded to the defined length, while under TDS 7.0
they do.

TDS 4.2:

2 | 25 | bellow | milk is good for you | 4567

TDS 7.0:

2 | 25 | bellow          | milk is good for you | 4567

where the column types are int,int,char(15),varchar(50),numeric(10,0)

I think the TDS 7.0 behavior is the correct one.  I almost always use
varchar() so this doesn't affect me much, but this may cause problems
for some.  Note that this behavior is observed via DBD::Sybase on both
platforms.

Otherwise, it looks great and ready for release as far as I can tell.

Thanks!
Eric