FreeTDS Development Group

[Chris Sharman <chris.sharman AT ccagroup.co.uk>]

FreeTDS Development Group wrote:
> VMS-specific mods are of interest to me if no one else.

The 'file separator' is simply:

static int queriesdone = 0;

if (queriesdone++) freopen("SYS$OUTPUT", "w", stdout);
above the column heading output. All but the last chunk of output 
apparently disappearing is not something I think you'd want to inflict 
on the installed userbase as part of an upgrade.

Played around with outputting file count & row totals into DCL symbols, 
too, for easier handling of output within command files.

The principal change was restructuring tsql to embed it into 
applications: separating initialisation from command execution, and 
handling timeout.

> Please obtain and use GNU diffutils.  I believe the committers prefer unified 
> diffs.  There is a VMS port available at:
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware50/gnudiffutils/gnudiffutils.zip

Will do in future, thanks.

> As far as the production quality of libtds, if someone said it was unstable, 
> what they meant was that it's subject to change without notice, not that it's 
> in any way flaky.  It's not at all surprising that you are able to write code 
> based on libtds and get it working reliably; the other libraries use it 
> internally after all.
>
> It's just that if you want maintainable code that will continue to work with 
> future versions of FreeTDS and/or other purveyors of the other APIs, then you 
> should use them.

"Subject to change without notice" I can live with - I probably won't 
upgrade unless we upgrade SQL server, or there's a major bug fix in 
freetds, which seems unlikely.

Chris


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