Re: [HACKERS] ODBC Driver int8 Patch

I am waiting for someone to comment on this.  Anyone?



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> Hi Bruce,
>
> Did you accept this patch in the end or was it rejected?
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> > Sent: 16 January 2001 16:50
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: 'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ODBC Driver int8 Patch
> >
> >
> > As I remember, the problem is that this makes us match the
> > ODBC v2 spec,
> > but then we would not match the v3 spec.  Is that correct?
> >
> >
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It was suggested that I post this patch here as no notice
> > was taken of it
> > > when posted to interfaces!
> > >
> > > This fixes problems with int8 columns which are reported by
> > the driver as
> > > SQL_BIGINT rather than SQL_CHAR as per the ODBC v2 spec.
> > Specifically, I
> > > have had problems with MS ADO - any queries that contain an
> > int8 column in
> > > the resultset will *always* return an empty recordset.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Dave.
> > >
> > > *** pgtypes.c.orig      Fri Dec 22 09:12:22 2000
> > > --- pgtypes.c   Fri Dec 22 09:12:22 2000
> > > ***************
> > > *** 217,223 ****
> > >         case PG_TYPE_XID:
> > >         case PG_TYPE_INT4:          return SQL_INTEGER;
> > >
> > > !       case PG_TYPE_INT8:                      return SQL_BIGINT;
> > >         case PG_TYPE_NUMERIC:           return SQL_NUMERIC;
> > >
> > >         case PG_TYPE_FLOAT4:        return SQL_REAL;
> > > --- 217,223 ----
> > >         case PG_TYPE_XID:
> > >         case PG_TYPE_INT4:          return SQL_INTEGER;
> > >
> > > !       case PG_TYPE_INT8:                      return SQL_CHAR;
> > >         case PG_TYPE_NUMERIC:           return SQL_NUMERIC;
> > >
> > >         case PG_TYPE_FLOAT4:        return SQL_REAL;
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
>


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  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
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