Re: Report BUG: The column size for BIT VARYING(5) type is incorrect - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

James (Ke) Wang wrote:
> create table j_varbit2 (vbt1 bit varying (5))
>
> *ColumnName = "vbt1", *NameLengthPtr = 4, *DataTypePtr = SQL_WVARCHAR=-9, *ColumnSizePtr = 1, *DecimalDigits = 0,
*NullablePtr= SQL_NULLABLE=1
 
>
> Why is the *ColumnSizePtr = 1 instead of *ColumnSizePtr = 5 since the column is created with bit varying (5) in the
testcase?
 

The ODBC specification does not define the data type BIT VARYING, so the
ODBC driver tries to represent it as a blob or text.

And five bits fit into one byte.


Regards,
Clemens