FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Frediano Ziglio [mailto:freddyz77 AT tin.it]
> Sent: April 30, 2003 3:09 PM
>
> I putted some "FIXME ICONV" in query.c. Mainly some sizes are needed
> before sending string...

Thanks.  

> Also our library do not work with non ASCII extended charset. 
> It this a
> problem? Some code require query parsing, so extended ascii charset
> (even utf8) work, 

Not a problem in theory.  We just need two TDSICONVINFO structures, one for
UCS-2, and one for the server's character set.  

> ebcdici (how to write it?) not!

See the iconv FAQ.  Basically, it says: "EBCDIC? No!"

> I renamed TDS_COMPLETED in TDS_IDLE and changed code in 
> query.c to test this state instead of "PENDING". 

Wow.  That was quick!  

> I also changed all server type define
> to an enum. My intention is to use enum so compiler can provide better
> warnings 

I like enum and think it's underused.  Sometimes we're constrained; either
because Sybase used #define, or because emum is 'int' bits wide (and so not
appropriate for, say, a 2-byte status code in the TDS packet).  

> Anyone know how to pass dynamic query to Sybase passing types? Can I
> post a dynamic query like
> 
> create proc my_proc @pippo int as ... ??
> 
> In TDS7+ I do something like
> sp_prepare @P1 out, '@pippo int', 'select @pippo', 1
> sp_execute @P1, @param1, @param2 ...

TDS 5.0 uses the TDS_DYNAMIC (0xE7) token.  I doubt there's any support for
dynamic queries in 4.2.  

With TDS_DYNAMIC, you send the statement text, then *ask* the server to
describe the i/o parameters (i.e. types).   To execute, you send TDS_DYNAMIC
again ('type' TDS_DYN_EXEC (0x02)), followed by a bunch of parameter
packets.  Paramater names are not supported.  

IMHO, this is a sensible approach, but requires the server to do more work.


> When I issue an RPC no TDS_DONE is returned (last returned is
> TDS_DONEPROC without continue). 

That conforms to Sybase's functional specification.  

> Perhaps we can test tds->state after
> tds_process_results_token but this lead future problem when 
> we implement full thread-safe... 

Is the question, When should we set "tds->state = TDS_IDLE"?  

Regards, 

--jkl




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