FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get my code working with the FreeTDS driver 
> (0.64) on
> > > Mac  OS X, and notice that the attribute SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_DEAD
> > > isn't  supported....
> ....
> > > My question is:  are there any efforts underway to add ODBC 3.5
> > > features  to the driver, including the CONNECTION_DEAD 
> attribute?  
> > 
> > Nothing difficult to add :)
> 
> Viva la difference!  
> 
> When I see "I'm trying to get my code working with the FreeTDS driver
> (0.64) on Mac OS X", I immediately assume there's a libtool 
> or Unicode or
> other portability issue.  
> 
> You know the ODBC driver has come of age when it's being compared to
> proprietary implementations, recommended by commercial products, and
> people are asking about 3.5 features.  
> 
> It is a complex piece of work, and it's taken many years and 
> iterations. 
> It's not done, of course -- what is? -- but it's come a long way.  
> 
> With Frediano at the helm, a great many people have 
> contributed to this
> driver, some with great gobs of code, some with a bug report or a
> question.  As they survey their work, I hope they feel 
> commensurate pride
> in their accomplishment.  
> 

I sitll remember when I started looking at FreeTDS driver... odbc driver
was maily a stub for unimplemented functions... one of the first patches
I sent was implementation of SQLFunctions and commenting out stubs...

After some years we can see "some" results :)

freddy77