FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Mike C. [mailto:mcbp223 AT yahoo.com]
> Sent: March 29, 2004 9:31 AM
> > From: Lowden, James K LowdenJK at bernstein.com
> > Sent: Sat Mar 27 11:16:15 EST 2004
> 
> I'm flirting with the idea of writing some ODS layer or 
> gateway, and see
> what clients I can talk to.
> The traces are coming from some tests done this way.

I see.  

> Yes why do the switch on column_varint_size instead of 
> column_type, just curious.

Well, as you can see, there's an implicit switch.  By the time we get to 
testing column_varint_size, we assume we're dealing with a blob, and the the 
only remaining question is whether it's datafull or null.  The switch could 
be made explicit, but the effect wouldn't change.  It would just make the 
code clearer, and if the code was completely clear, what would we talk about 
then?  

> I am interested by any ideas for opening up the server 
> end-point of TDS as you guys did with the client side.

I'll have a look.  It sounds like we have some common interests.  

--jkl

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