FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:08:57 -0700, Craig Davison <cd AT securityfocus.com>
wrote:
> I noticed some wierd behaviour with freetds 0.60.1 (and 0.53, 0.52).
> When using TDS 7.0, SELECT '' returns NULL. However, with TDS4.2, it
> returns '' as expected.
> 
> With sqsh (megatron is set up for 7.0 in /etc/freetds/freetds.conf):
> [8] megatron..1> select ''
> [8] megatron..2> go
> 
> 
>  NULL
> 
> (1 row affected)
> 
> Again (megatron42 is set up for 4.2):
> [9] megatron42..1> select ''
> [9] megatron42..2> go
> 
>  -
> 
> 
> (1 row affected)

Looks like a ct-lib issue; tsql doesn't behave that way.  We should fix it
before 0.61 release.  I'm not sure I'll have time until next week, though.
 

--jkl