FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:57:24 +0800, "Varley, David(CBorn at Alcoa)"
<David.Varley AT alcoa.com.au> wrote:
> You're right, that does "fix" the problem (and yes, it is SQLServer 7).
> And I rebuilt sqsh on Linux, and exactly the same thing happened there.
> However I was puzzled as to why this had just started with latest code,
> as I'm tracking CVS changes pretty much daily.
> 
> The "_image" field in the all_types test table is a 16 byte long binary,
> with 8-byte contents (20120304).
> When I use tsql, it seems to display it correctly.

This is worrisome.  It implies we're lying to sqsh about the size of image
columns via ctlib.  Does anyone remember dealing with anything along these
lines?   I looked at the ChangeLog, but nothing leapt out at me.  

--jkl