FreeTDS Development Group

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

No, this is a protocol limit, surely we can't fix this problem...

freddy77