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Re: [freetds] In what version of FreeTDS did tdsdbopen get the msdblib flag?

From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [freetds] In what version of FreeTDS did tdsdbopen get the msdblib flag?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:30:04 +0100

2013/9/19 Marc Abramowitz <msabramo AT gmail.com>:
> Didn't realize until now that you don't have to use a FreeTDS compiled with
> --enable-msdblib as you can just compile with #define MSDBLIB and dbopen
> will call tdsdbopen with msdblib = 1 so that dates are handled correctly...
> Very cool!
>

Thanks :)

> It looks like it goes back to before FreeTDS 0.82 but couldn't find it in
> the ChangeLog.

I don't remember but should be in the documentation somewhere

Using git annotate the commit is

commit 322f240471c8837ea692cc3391cfe57ae412a09a
Author: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
Date: Tue Oct 19 11:14:49 2004 +0000

make --enable-msdblib binary compatible with default version

More or less 9 years ago!

Frediano

Re: [freetds] In what version of FreeTDS did tdsdbopen get the msdblib flag?, Frediano Ziglio, 09/19/2013