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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Test of 0.60-rc3
  • Date: 11 Sep 2002 07:47:19 +0200


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





  • Test of 0.60-rc3, Eric Deutsch, 09/10/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Test of 0.60-rc3, Frediano Ziglio, 09/11/2002

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