FreeTDS Development Group

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

Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it> wrote:
> > The "row" layer has a lot of work to do:
> > 
> > *   iconv.  We put all iconv work in libtds, next to the wire.  We
> > convert immediately to client's encoding.  That's OK, be we have to
> > honor the client's binding, too.  I guess this is part of "row".  
> > 
> > *   text.  Also part of "row".  As you say, sending a row is really
> > just calling several send-a-column functions, same for reading a row. 
> > Text is tricky, because a partial column can be read/written.  
> > 
> > *   column.  ct-lib and ODBC both provide for column-wise result sets.
> > I haven't read Bill's code, so I don't know how he does it, but if
> > we're clever, the row-reading function will know how to build columns,
> > too.  Without double buffering.  
> > 
> > Does that look like a good direction to you?  
> > 
> 
> It sounds good. Have you some idea about some abstract code/declaration?

I'll work on some declarations.  Give me a few days.  

--jkl