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[freetds] maxlength of CS_TEXT_TYPE - 2GB?

From: Erik Bryn <erik.bryn AT gmail.com>
To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [freetds] maxlength of CS_TEXT_TYPE - 2GB?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:59:19 -0700

Hi,

I'm new to interfacing with FreeTDS in C. While attempting to fetch
text, using ct-lib, from MSSQL 2008. I'm seeing the maxlength of the
field is 2GB, which is obviously too large to malloc. What's the best
practice for reading in data of unknown length?

Thanks,
- Erik

[freetds] maxlength of CS_TEXT_TYPE - 2GB?, Erik Bryn, 08/22/2010
- Re: [freetds] maxlength of CS_TEXT_TYPE - 2GB?, Frediano Ziglio, 08/22/2010
  - Re: [freetds] maxlength of CS_TEXT_TYPE - 2GB?, Erik Bryn, 08/22/2010
    - Re: [freetds] maxlength of CS_TEXT_TYPE - 2GB?, Erik Bryn, 08/22/2010