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  • From: "Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>
  • To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] Sybase 4.2 crash
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:24:47 +0100

James,

I *think* we get stack traces on old versions of Sybase, regardless of the
TDS version....

I remember our DBA's researching it and telling me that Sybase admitted it
as a bug which was fixed in subsequent sybase versions

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [SMTP:jklowden AT schemamania.org]
> Sent: 17 June 2004 13:00
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Sybase 4.2 crash
>
> > SQL Server/11.0.3.3/P/RS6000/AIX4.1/SWR 8297 ESD 4/OPT/Fri Mar 12
> > 00:33:51 PST 1999
>
> I have just learned about another example of crashing a Sybase server with
> FreeTDS. Like every such case, it used TDS 4.2. Unusually, the server
> was not 12.5 or something; it was 11.0.3, as above.
>
> I think we should do one of these things with TDS 4.2:
>
> 1. Disable it.
> 2. Call tds_client_msg() with a warning whenever it's enabled.
> 3. Fix it.
>
> The only reason I can think of to use TDS 4.2 is with Microsoft servers
> prior to SQL Server 7. *Maybe* it works with those servers, but that
> seems unlikely to me, because such servers are so rare nowadays. It
> hasn't been sold since, what, 1998?
>
> Great harm comes from crashing a server: to the poor programmer at the
> hands of his admin and his manager, to the project's reputation, and even
> to free software generally. Never mind, potentially at least, to the
> data.
>
> If anyone reading this message would be adversely affected if the next
> release of FreeTDS dropped support for TDS 4.2, please say so. If no
> one's willing to fix it, I think it should go.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --jkl
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