FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il mer, 2002-09-11 alle 01:33, Eric Deutsch ha scritto:
> 
> 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.
> 

Intentional. ODBC lack many things...

> 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
> 

IMHO this is a post 0.6 issue...

> 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
> 
freddy77