FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, William" <bill.d.thompson AT baml.com>]

Freddy,

> Something like that ??

EXACTLY like that, actually.

> Perhaps to avoid some clash with proprietary libraries

That would have been a reason for caution, certainly.
It *would* be extending db-lib's capabilities beyond the existing 
documentation, but we've done that before where we think the extension is 
worthwhile. In this case it most definitely is.

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Frediano Ziglio
Sent: 19 May 2011 09:55
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] Binding a BIGINT in db-libraray


2011/5/18 James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 22:24:50 +0100
> "Thompson, William" <bill.d.thompson AT baml.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying out 0.91 for the first time...
>
> Welcome back!
>
>> well to cut a long story short, my existing application code calls
>> dbbind() with a bind type of BIGINTBIND to allow  bigint data to be
>> bound to a long long variable.
>> Is this one my er...bespoke extensions to dblib ?
>
> Your patch would go well here, Bill.  Cf. _db_get_server_type().
> (Server type?  Who names these things?)
>

Something like that ??
I think I have too much patches unfinished... this is a small one!
Don't ask me why I skipped some numbers... I don't remember but there
must be a reason! Perhaps to avoid some clash with proprietary
libraries

freddy77

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