FreeTDS Development Group

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

> 
> Hello
> 
> > James, do you agree with this patch?
> > IMHO is not so good. Or we remove the cardinal type from
> > tds_set_column_type (and perhaps column_type from TDSCOLINFO) 
> > and change
> > all other code to handle all types or we use tds_set_column_type for
> > params...
> 
> I don't know the code enough, but could someone explain to me why it's
> neccessary to map XSYBVARCHAR to SYBVARCHAR, at least for tds 
> 7 and up.
> 
> Arnar
> 

Cause switch became shorter and cause library handle varchar in the same way. 
Defining SQLVARCHAR as XSYBVARCHAR is only a trick... libTDS should use 
XSYBVARCHAR if SYBVARCHAR is specified and protocol is TDS7+...

freddy77