FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> > In TDS 7.0, there now IS a direct way of submitting a 
> stored procedure
> > call to the server, passing input parameters and retrieving output
> > parameters. So the former method is now redundant.
> 
> Well, it's no accident the address is "One Microsoft Way" is it?
> 
> OK, I'm done being snide.  What to do?  Here's how I see it.  
> 
> The TDS_RETURNVALUE (0xac) token was used only by db-lib 
> programs and has
> been considered "obsolete" by Sybase for five years.  

Sybase made obsolete TDS_RETURNVALUE because it replace with
TDS_PARAMFMT/TDS_PARAMS, not because it do not return output parameters.

> 
> If we don't have one already, we should have an rpc version 
> of t0022.c. 
> Well, maybe we should have more than a stub implementation in rpc.c,
> first. ;)  Seems to me that has been made more urgent.  Am I 
> correct that
> libtds is rpc-ready, and that all we need to do is the db-lib
> implementation?  
> 

Quite ready... see also my previous mail on parameters storage...
RPC is very similar to DYNAMIC query (input parameters and output one are
handled in the same way...)

> And, of course, we should document it.  
> 

I try to document all added functions using Doxygen. Perhaps I should update
also other docs? Like protocol issues?

freddy77

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