FreeTDS Development Group

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

Luke Benstead wrote:
> 
> I'm using 0.64. The bug doesn't occur with 0.63 but I get a different
> bug (duplicate rows returned when there is a warning) with 0.63 that is
> fixed in 0.64 :)

        :-)  And this will be fixed, too, soon.  

> Setting a text-size does get rid of the crazy numbers, setting a text
> size of 4000 in freetds.conf, sets the Server column size to 4000 and
> the client one to 8000. Either way the bug still occurs.

I.e., it still crashes?  

> The field is an ntext field that is empty (i.e a blank string, not NULL)

Thanks.  I think we should add this to our unit tests.  From your
description it sounds like a server bug.  Where I come from zero-length
strings have a length of zero, not infinite.  But mine is basically a
Newtonian existence....

--jkl