FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, joshua stein <jcs AT rt.fm> wrote:
> > however, i'm seeing the opposite.  i'm running 0.62.dev.20031220 and
> > am getting errors from freetds when selecting data from bigint
> > columns:
> > 
> >    Unknown size 8 for SYBINTN
> 
> ok, i figured it out.  the old server had this sql server in its
> freetds.conf with a version of 7.0, but the new one had it as 8.0
> (it's a sql 2000 server).  i changed it to 7.0 and the code works
> without any errors.

That sounds a lot like a bug.  Thanks for the report, Joshua.  

I can't easily test any fixes for this, because I don't have access to a
TDS 8.0 machine except at work, where I don't hack FreeTDS unless
necessary for work reasons.  

--jkl