FreeTDS Development Group

["Robin Smith" <Robin AT ndigital.com>]

>> I have had trouble with the odbc_num_rows() function. It seems to always
>> return -1 if you call it just after odbc_exec(). For me, it always
>> returned the right value after I looped through all the results.(useless
>> at that point)

>The driver cannot tell you something the server itself doesn't know.  The
>server sends the rows as they are produced, and can't (and therefore
>doesn't) send the rowcount until the last row is sent.  

Isn't this the same symptom I was seeing in the 0.82 driver? Freddy fixed it 
in the RC3 release with the rowset test change he made around Feb 29th. Is 
the same defect he was fixing in 0.82 still in the 6x code?

Robin
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