FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 08:20, Lowden, James K wrote:
> > From: Castellano, Nicholas [mailto:Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com]
> > Sent: October 21, 2002 10:44 AM
> > 
> > DBD::Sybase recently changed from using cs_ctx_alloc() to 
> > cs_ctx_global().
> > When it was mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, I added 
> > cs_ctx_global() to
> > FreeTDS.  So, older versions of DBD::Sybase didn't need this function.
> 
> Nick, 
> 
> Hmm.  I found the messages you're referring to, on 27 September.  
> 
> Michael, if you're listening, you might want to update peppler.org.  I just
> downloaded from http://www.peppler.org/downloads/DBD-Sybase-0.94_02.tar.gz,
> and there's no file in there that's been changed since 12 December 2001, nor
> any reference to cs_ctx_global.  
> 
> Was there a clear version number change?  I'd like our docs to say "FreeTDS
> 0.60 works with DBD::Sybase until [e.g.] 0.94.2; to work with later versions
> of DBD::Sybase, use a more recent snapshot of FreeTDS."  
> 
> I figure if I'm confused, others might be, too.  

0.94_02 uses cs_ctx_global(). Previous versions don't. The reason for
using cs_ctx_global() is when you integrate DBD::Sybase into an existing
process that may already have allocated a CS_CONTEXT - that way you pick
up the existing context. I did this specifically because I've been
working on an Open Server with perl capabilities - something that could
be used to provide a simple gateway to non-Sybase data sources from
Transact-SQL (a cheaper version of Sybase's DirectConnect product,
essentially).

I need to add a number of bug fixes, and then I'll release 0.95
officially, hopefully in a week or two.

Michael
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