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Were the tests on the 64bit platforms failing only
against SQL Server or against both Sybase and MS? 
Might be an important datapoint.

Brian

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:05:42 -0500 , "Lowden, James K"
wrote:

> 
> > From: Thompson, Bill D (London)
> [mailto:bill_d_thompson AT ml.com]
> > Sent: January 7, 2004 10:55 AM
> > 
> > odbc unit tests (using unixodbc) - 2 failures ,
> "funccall" and
> > "transaction". Are these known about ?
> 
> I was under the impression this was a 64-bit issue. 
> Nick just reproduced it
> on i386.  The tests pass with Sybase, but not
> Microsoft, servers.  
> 
> It may be related to the version of unixODBC.  Both
> systems he tested use
> unixODBC 2.0.  More identifying information, fwiw,
> below. 
> 
> Choices:
> 
> 1.  Fix before release, delay if necessary.  
> 2.  Indicate as broken in release notes, explaining
> ramifications.  
> 3.  Remove tests, because not important or
misleading.  
> 4.  Discover it's due to an old version of unixODBC,
> celebrate.  
> 
> #4 would be nice, needs just a line in the release
> notes.  
> 
> At the very least, I think we need to be sure what's
> going on before we
> issue the release.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
> $ ident  /usr/pkg/lib/libodbc.a
> /usr/pkg/lib/libodbc.a:
>      $RCSfile: SQLAllocConnect.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLAllocEnv.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLAllocHandle.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.13 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLAllocHandleStd.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLAllocStmt.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLBindCol.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.2 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLBindParam.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.2 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLBindParameter.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.2 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLBrowseConnect.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.9 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLBulkOperations.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.2 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLCancel.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.2 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLCloseCursor.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.2 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLColAttribute.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.6 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLColAttributes.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.4 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLColumnPrivileges.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.4 $
>      $RCSfile: SQLColumns.c,v $
>      $Revision: 1.4 $
> 
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