FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Castellano, Nicholas [mailto:Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com]
> Sent: November 20, 2002 4:51 PM
> 
> I think we should just scrap src/dblib/unittests/t0022.c.  It 
> seems to be
> the general consensus that this is obsolete functionality and 
> just isn't useful behavior anyway.  This test is a pain for other 
> reasons (it requires
> permission to create procedures, which makes it fail on many 
> non-privileged
> setups where it might otherwise succeed).  This means that 
> the test fails in
> the example configuration with Sybase's JDBC server, which I 
> find to be an annoyance.
> 
> Any objections to removing the test?

The functionality of retrieving an output parameter from a stored proc is
useful and not obsolete.  The token that 4.2 used is deprecated, that's all.
Its functionality was *not* dropped; in fact it was replaced by something
that allows for something >64 KB IIRC.  

I haven't had a chance to look at Bob's last trace, the one he did with MS
ODBC.  I'd like to do that at least, before we completely give up on it.  

If the TSQL docs for SQL Server 2000 indicate that output parameters are no
longer supported, that would be news to me.  

t0022.c should report if it has insufficient permissions.  I don't know if
we should consider that a failure or a lack of trying.  :-)

--jkl


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