FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

Technoid <technoid AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Now they want to quit using linux compatibility mode and run natively
> on  FreeBSD. When they use FreeTDS, they encounter two problems:
> 
> 1. The lack of support for the Sybase 'DBMORECMDS' function

DBMORECMDS exists in 0.63, and updated yesterday by Bill Thompson.  

> 2. The lack of support for the Sybase 'money' data types. (The 'money'
> issue appears to be isolated to just 'select'; 'update' and 'insert'
> seem to be fine. Seems
> that FreeTDS upon receiving the data from Sybase identified as 'money'
> lacks the support of handing that data type. )

FreeTDS has handled money datatypes correctly for a long time.  Most of
the money manipulation functions, things like dbmnydivide(), are not
implemented.  No one has complained.  ;-)

> 2. If there *are* known deficiencies in FreeTDS, are they something
> that  I could help with? Does anyone have any recommendations of where
> to start?

The money manipulation functions, if you need them, aren't very
complicated to write, and have the nice feature that they don't interact
with the rest of db-lib, except for structure definitions and some
symbols.  

If there are missing functions in db-lib that you need, I'd be interested
in hearing about them.  I'm developing the opinion that db-lib is about
done, for all real intents and purposes.  

I recommend you pull the new 0.63RC2 and give it a whirl.  

Regards, 

--jkl