FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Peter Giorgilli <pgiorgilli AT theage.fairfax.com.au>
wrote:
> 
> I recently installed FreeTDS (0.61.2) in combo with unixODBC (2.2.6),
> Perl DBI and Perl DBD::ODBC for the same reason that many of you may
> have. Namely, to access an Microsoft SQL database from Linux; in this
> case, from a Perl application.
...
>Basically, what was happening was that the "_SQLExecute" function was not
>trapping the "TDS_FAIL" return code (generated as a result 
> of the connection dying) and returning "SQL_SUCCESS" by default. The 
> "SQLMoreResults" was in turn being called, when strictly it shouldn't
> have been, the end result being that the process would end up in a tight
> loop. 
...
> After all of that, the patch below seems to have done the trick.

Thanks for the work and the patch, Peter.  :-)

I have cleaned up the effects of email mangulation:

http://www.schemamania.org/projects/freetds/patches/PeterGiorgilli.diff

Would someone who's worked on the ODBC driver tell me if it should go in? 
I know Frediano's been having technical difficulties lately, and I'm happy
to apply it, but I'm not in a position to say whether or not I should.  

--jkl