Re: ODBC Driver int8 Patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: ODBC Driver int8 Patch
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Msg-id 200101161650.LAA25927@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to ODBC Driver int8 Patch  (Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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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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