FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Castellano, Nicholas 
> Sent: January 8, 2004 11:57 AM
> > From: Lowden, James K 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:15 AM
> > 
> > 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.

Ah, and to answer Freiano's question, no, I didn't test ODBC on
NetBSD/Alpha.  So it appears we're 0/2 with one abstention.  

Is it correct to say that these ODBC unit tests fail on some (all?) 64-bit
platforms?  Only with Microsoft servers?  I wouldn't be ashamed to admit
that for 0.62.  

--jkl
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