FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

On 15/gen/2012, at 16:46, Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I  just found this freedts thingy,
> and i read through the FAQ which states that MARS
> is not supported, and some reason why so.
> 
> However, a bit further down, there is a passus that
> suggests it _might_ be supported in the future?
> 

As usual I have a patch, but currently I'm unable to bring it to a proper 
state :(

> So my question is if there are any plans to do so?
> 

No!

> Reason I ask is that I work on a system, that was developed
> many years ago (1990-ish) and that is uses the concept
> of opening a cursor, looping through the recordset,
> and use some of those values retrieved to update other
> tables within that loop.
> It was developed on Mimer, then ported to Oracle.
> 
> Last year, I ported it to MS sql-server, and boom/bang/crash,
> the mars feature came up. I had not heard of dbs not supporting it
> before, so I was a bit surprised.
> 

Using odbc you can change cursors type in order to achieve this behavior. 
Ctlib should support cursor too but I don't remember the state.

> Now, I found this Raspberri Pi system
> <http://www.raspberrypi.org>
> based on Arm and debian.
> 
> I thought it would be nice to show scalability by
> porting the system to this device.
> 
> There's no Oracle client libs for arm, so I was very happy
> to see freetds. But a bit sad when this mars-thingy
> showed up.
> 
> -- 
> /Björn

bye
  freddy77