Terrific,
Just what I was after.
Thanks very much.
Regards,
Paul Lisewski,
(paull@techone.com.au)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Byron Nikolaidis [SMTP:byronn@insightdist.com]
> Sent: 18 April 1998 6:33
> To: Paul Lisewski; pgsql-interfaces
> Subject: Re: ODBC driver (SQLGetTypeInfo)
>
> Paul,
>
> I changed the driver to handle this a little better.
>
> - text was already SQL_LONGVARCHAR.
> - name is now SQL_CHAR (fixed at 32) - it should have been this all
> along
> - varchar and bpchar both return SQL_VARCHAR, BUT varchar now comes
> first,
> since it is most correct anyway, I think that makes sense.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> The latest stuff is at our web site.
>
> Byron
>
>
> Paul Lisewski wrote:
>
> > When getting a list of DataTypes via SQLGetInfo, there are 4
> SQL_VARCHAR
> > types.
> > They are:
> > bpchar, varchar, text and name.
> >
> > I have a utility to interogate a database and create tables using
> the
> > syntax from SQLGetInfo. I pick the first match from the list (in
> this
> > case bpchar). Could the Types be modified to SQL_LONGVARCHAR for the
> non
> > varchar datatypes or at least resequenced so that varchar comes
> before
> > bpchar
> >
> > Various version of PostODBC used to have this problem, then it was
> > changed so that bpchar reported SQL_LONGVARCHAR.
> >
>
>
