FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowden, James K 
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:15 AM
> To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
> Subject: RE: [freetds] Status 0.62rc4
> 
> If Frediano says the tests are bogus, then, sure, let's 
> remove them from the release.  Otherwise, I'm inclined to 
> leave them in with a note that they'll fail on some Solaris 
> machines for reasons that we don't understand.  If we explain 
> what they test, the user will be able to determine whether or 
> not it's relevant.  If it is, perhaps another interested 
> party will help us triangulate what's going on.  

Just to be clear:  the failures are not restricted to Solaris; I reproduced
the problem on Digital UNIX.  On my DU4.0G system, the tests succeeded
against a Sybase dataserver with TDS 5.0 and failed against a SQL2000 server
with TDS 7.0.

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