FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

Il giorno mar 9 giu 2020 alle ore 16:18 Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> Frediano,
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:34 AM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >     just another updated release candidate.
> >
> > Changes since previous release candidate:
> > - Small update to user guide;
> > - Fix build for OpenVMS;
> > - Fix build from git for MacOS.
> >
> >
> > Summary of Changes in release 1.2
> > ---------------------------------
> > User visible (not in a particular order):
> > - Sybase server:
> >   - All strings are now converted as MSSQL;
> >   - Support kerberos login;
> >   - DB-Library: add DBSETNETWORKAUTH, DBSETMUTUALAUTH, DBSETDELEGATION
> and
> >     DBSETSERVERPRINCIPAL;
> >   - CT-Library: add CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH, CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH,
> >     CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH and CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH;
> > - Bulk copies:
> >   - DB-Library: fix trim of unicode fields;
> >   - (*) Apply character conversion for Sybase, like MSSQL;
> >   - (*) Ignore computed columns;
> >   - (*) Properly support multibyte strings in column names;
> >   - (*) DB-Library: stop correctly on BCPMAXERRS setting;
> >   - (*) DB-Library: do not try to convert skipped rows reading file
> allowing
> >     for instance to load CVS files;
> > - (*) CT-Library: added CS_DATABASE property to allows to connect
> correctly
> >   to Azure servers;
> > - (*) Improve support for MS XML columns for both DB-Library and
> CT-Library;
> > - (*) Fix some issues with MSSQL server redirection (used for instance in
> >   Azure);
> > - (*) Change SQL_DESC_OCTET_LENGTH value for wise character columns;
> > - Better support for SQL_VARIANT:
> >   - Better column checks;
> >   - (*) CT-Library: now supported, columns are returned as CS_CHAR_TYPE;
> > - Some updates to server part:
> >   - Set correctly initial state;
> >   - IPv6 support;
> >   - Fix TDS 7.2 logins;
> > - Support extended character using domain logins under Unix;
> > - Improve MARS:
> >   - Less memory copies;
> >   - (*) Remove possible deadlock;
> >   - Handle wrapping sequence/window numbers;
> >   - Make sure we sent the wanted packet;
> > - (*) Support UTF-16 surrogate pairs in odbc_wide2utf and
> > odbc_set_string_flag
> >   fixing some character encoding support;
> > - (*) Fix multiple queries, used by ODBC to optimize data load;
> > - (*) Improve emulated parameter queries, fixing minor issues and
> reducing
> >   memory usage;
> > - Support DBVERSION_UNKNOWN in dbsetlversion (will use automatic
> detection);
> > - CT-Library: define CS_MIN_SYBTYPE and CS_MAX_SYBTYPE;
> > - (*) CT-Library: fix cs_will_convert accepting library constants, not
> > libTDS.
> >
> > (*) Feature backported in stable 1.1 branch.
> >
> > Implementation:
> > - User guide converted to XML;
> > - Always use little endian on network level, simpler and faster;
> > - Converted some files to markdown;
> > - Optimize bytes endianess conversion;
> > - Made character lookup faster making character conversion quicker;
> > - Optimize data padding in CT-Library;
> > - Fix some build dependencies causing some files to not be properly
> >   recompiled during development;
> > - Add "freeze" support allowing to pause sending in order to simplify
> >   lengths computations sending data.
>
> Is there a plan to implement the missing ODBC function?
> There is only one left...
>
> Thank you.
>
> Hi,
   I suppose you refer to SQLDescribeParam.

Currently no plan but using new MSSQL and store procedure suggested should
not be that hard.

Surely not for 1.2 (maybe 1.2.1 ;-) )

Regards,
  Frediano