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Re: [freetds] Problem with connection.

From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [freetds] Problem with connection.
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:37:08 -0500

Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> there is no direct
> support for bigint in dblib... you should use numeric. DBINT8/DBINT64
> would be an extension to dblib.

The vendors, each for their own reasons, haven't kept their db-libs up to
date. So I guess it's up to us.

> It seems Sybase defined support for
> bigint only for ctlib (odbc already support 64bit integers) using
> CS_BIGINT. We could define an extension for this binding and type.

That's what I think we should do. I'm just hoping "we" is a man with an
itch and a patch.

> tds_willconvert and tds_convert already support SYBINT8 so the
> extension would affect only dblib library not libTDS code.

Excellent.

--jkl

[freetds] Problem with connection., Fernando, 01/05/2010
- Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., James K. Lowden, 01/05/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., ikorot, 01/05/2010
  - Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., Fernando, 01/05/2010
- Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., ikorot, 01/05/2010
- Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., ikorot, 01/05/2010
  - Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., Fernando, 01/13/2010
    - Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., James K. Lowden, 01/18/2010
      - Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., Frediano Ziglio, 01/19/2010
        
        Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., James K. Lowden, 01/20/2010
        
        Re: [freetds] Problem with connection., Frediano Ziglio, 01/21/2010