FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens [mailto:s.sonnenberg AT coolspot.de]
> Sent: November 15, 2002 9:14 AM
> 
> Did I mention that the system running is productive ?
> If it is possible, could you point me to the C source files 
> containing the stuff to create a back-patch ?

Stefan, 

It's not possible to patch 0.53 with 0.60 features.  The datatype handling
was heavily revised; see 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freetds/freetds/src/tds/conve
rt.c    
to confirm.  See also the 0.60 release notes and ChangeLog.  

The next version (which we'll probably call 0.61) will include still more
fixes: output parameters of stored procedures, compute rows, much improved
error/message handling, and (I hope) dynamic SQL support.  Also better API
documentation and greater stability.  Before the snows melt would be a good
bet.  

Regards, 

--jkl
 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>
> To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:42 PM
> Subject: [freetds] RE: Strange things ...
> 
> 
> > >
> > >Hi list,
> > >we have several tables containing somtimes NULL or even 
> the string ""
> > (nothing, but not null)
> > >If we retrieve the content of the field, PHP 4.2.3 returns 
> a " " (Space),
> > not a "".
> > >The used software combination is : FreeTDS 0.53 
> (--with-tdsver=7.0), PHP
> > 4.2.3 and
> > >apache 1.3.27 on Debian Linux 3.0r0.
> > >
> > >Any comments ?
> > >
> > You are using an old FreeTDS version that do not support 
> empty (not null)
> > strings.
> > Even 0.60 has not this support, you should use a snapshot.
> >
> > freddy77
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