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- From: "Bill Thompson" <thompbil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>
- To: freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: RE: coding advice, please...
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:31:18 -0400
James,
> Bill,
>
> Since you asked , I'll agree with Steve, since he's so agreeable.
>
> The simple fact is, as I see it, that tds_process_row_tokens() has more to
> say than yea/nae, so it should say it. Making libtds better is good.
> Omelettes and eggs and all that.
>
I think this may be turning into the mother of all omelettes!
My travails with tds_process_row_tokens() are a vicar's tea party compared
with the prospect of rewriting the "row buffering" functionality in
dblibrary to handle compute rows that are liberally and randomly
interspersed with data rows!
> While I don't advocate gratuitous changes to libtds, neither should we let
> the tail wag the dog. It's there for us, to help us create the client APIs,
> and anything we do to it toward that end will benefit many people, 1000
> times more (I mean that literally) people than those inconvenienced. We can
> make it work now and make excuses later. :)
I agree. Thanks!
>
> BTW, I think your compute-row handling may overlap with Frediano's output
> parameter handling. Cf. dbretdata(). I don't know what you'll find on the
> wire; I'm speculating.
>
It should be a different token stream. Freddy, I can help with the streams
for this data if you like ( markers 0x79 and 0xac ? )
Bill
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coding advice, please...,
Bill Thompson, 09/24/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: coding advice, please..., Steve Langasek, 09/24/2002
- Re: coding advice, please..., Bill Thompson, 09/24/2002
- Re: coding advice, please..., stephen . hsu, 09/24/2002
- Re: coding advice, please..., Castellano, Nicholas, 09/24/2002
- Re: coding advice, please..., Chad Enney, 09/24/2002
- RE: coding advice, please..., Lowden, James K, 09/24/2002
- RE: coding advice, please..., Bill Thompson, 09/24/2002
- RE: coding advice, please..., Brian Bruns, 09/24/2002
- RE: coding advice, please..., Thompson, Bill D (London), 09/24/2002
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