I'm not sure you are the person to recieve these. If not, could you
pass them along.
These problems were found when installing postodbc on sun solaris
2.5.1. It could be that some of these would not be errors on some
other OS.
connection.c. A seg fault occurs when writing to one of the log
files. The problem is a null pointer.
misc.c. If log files are written by one user, then the next user
cannot reopen or replace the files since they are owned by the first.
There the fopen returns a null pointer and causes a segmentation
error.
gpps.c. There were several errors in the implementation of
GetPrivateProfileString and WritePrivateProfileString. The principle
problem was that iodbc and psqlodbc ended up pointing to different ini
files. I used this code in another application and implemented all
the features of the Window's APIs.
I think the code to read the ini files should be in iodbc not each
client. I have received three different iodbc's from postgres, mysql,
and openlink distributions. All three slightly different. And most
of the differences are in the handling of ini files.
I am sending my implementation of GetPrivateProfileString and
WriteProfileString in files: profile.h, profile.c, and a test
application testpro.c.
One problem with the distribution of psqlodbc is that the linker
switch -B symbolic causes 4 linker errors to be listed. I did not
know this was really OK, that the linker errors would be resolved by
the dynamic loading. Therefore, I wasted a lot of time trying to
solve this problem that wasn't really a problem. Perhaps, there
should be some warning in the install documentation to expect these
linker errors.
John Sharp
jsharp@cfipro.com
sharp@cs.pdx.edu
