FreeTDS Development Group

[Jochen Daum <jd AT automatem.co.nz>]

Hi,

I am investigating an issue whereby an empty column is returned for a
text field when using PHP PDO unixODBC FreeTDS SQL Server.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and my FreeTDS file is as here

/etc/freetds/freetds.ini

# Global settings are overridden by those in a database
# server specific section
[global]
        # TDS protocol version

        # Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes
        # (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system)
        dump file = /tmp/freetds.log
        dump file append
        debug flags = 0xffff

        # Command and connection timeouts
;       timeout = 10
;       connect timeout = 10

        # If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client
        # is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
        # Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
        client charset = UTF-8
        tds version = 8.0
        text size = 10971520
        port = 1433


As per below from the unixODBC mailing list, it appears my restriction
is at the driver (=freetds) level.

I also found this:
http://yahowto.blogspot.co.nz/2011/01/fix-ntext-problems-with-php-freetds.html,
but changing the column from text to varchar(max) did not help.

Any idea how to diagnose this. I also seem to have no FreeTDS logging.

Thanks for any help,

Jochen


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nick Gorham <nick AT lurcher.org>
Date: 24 September 2012 11:10
Subject: Re: [unixODBC-support] PHP PDO unixODBC FreeTDS SQL Server
text column size
To: Support for the unixODBC project <unixodbc-support AT mailman.unixodbc.org>


On 21/09/12 10:14, Jochen Daum wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> with odbc Trace enabled I see now that the size of the text column
> that doesn't work is restricted to 4096 bytes, at least this is how I
> interpret the log:
>
> Column Name = [attaContent]
>                          Data Type = 0x7fbf7136d618 -> -1
>                          Column Size = 0x7fff8c0d11d4 -> 4096
>                          Decimal Digits = NULLPTR
>                          Nullable = NULLPTR
> [ODBC][29384][1348216767.780752][SQLColAttribute.c][286]
>                  Entry:
>                          Statement = 0x7fbf712a2580
>                          Column Number = 6
>                          Field Identifier = SQL_DESC_DISPLAY_SIZE
>                          Character Attr = (nil)
>                          Buffer Length = 0
>                          String Length = (nil)
>                          Numeric Attribute = 0x7fff8c0d11d8
> [ODBC][29384][1348216767.780768][SQLColAttribute.c][657]
>                  Exit:[SQL_SUCCESS]
>
Well, the driver is reporting that the column is 4096 bytes long, and
is a SQL_LONGVARCHAR.

>
> Is there a setting to control the maximum number of bytes returned. I
> think I have these right in php.ini:
>
> odbc.defaultlrl = 10000000
>
> (also have
> mssql.textlimit = 2147483647
>
> ; Valid range 0 - 2147483647.  Default = 4096.
> mssql.textsize = 2147483647
>
> but this shouldn't matter, correct?)

No, the driver is reporting the column size, setting PHP variables
wont change the driver.

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