FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

Looks great. do you have a freshmeat account so i can add you as an admin
to that for announcement purposes??

Brian

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:07:19 -0400, "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org> wrote:
> > ... it works on AIX and (of course) Linux. However, setting TDSVER to
> > 4.2 on Sybase 12.5 stack traced and locked up the server....bad, bad,
> > bad!
> > 
> > We need to include a *HUGE* warning about this one.  Otherwise, it looks
> > good.
> > Do you want to do a rc5, or just add the text and promote it?
> 
> I say it's a go.  I will update the readme and rename the archive.  I will
> not rebuild or re-tar it.  See huge warning attached.  
> 
> Idea for next time:  send mail to root@localhost, attaching any special
> announcements.  Couldn't hurt.  
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> --jkl
> 
> <top of README.0.60>
> ********************************
> ** Warning regarding Sybase 12.5! **
> ********************************
> 
> Do Not Use FreeTDS 0.60 with TDS version 4.2 to connect to Sybase 12.5.
> Please!  
> 
> While we don't like to put the bad news first, neither do we want you to
> hurt your server.  Late in the release cycle, we found that our
> implementation of TDS 4.2 gives Sybase 12.5 a bad case of heartburn.  In
> short: it crashed the server.  
> 
> We don't know what it is about our version of TDS 4.2 that Sybase 12.5
> doesn't like, and we'll be looking closely at that question.  But in the
> meanwhile, until we can find the problem and fix it, please don't use that
> combination.  Unless you want to help us test it, that is.  
> 
> FreeTDS 0.60 works fine with Sybase 12.5 if you use TDS version 5.0.  
> 
> If you are using Sybase 12.5 and anything above is not clear to you,
> please see the User Guide.  If it is still not clear after that, please
> write to the FreeTDS mailing list.  We'd rather answer your questions
> while your server is still running.  
> 
> Thank you.  We return now to your regularly scheduled README, already in
> progress.  
> 
> New location of installed files!
> ================================
> [etc.]
> <end readme>