On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> Cedar Cox wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> >
> > > cnliou@eurosport.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I will check this out.
> > > > My C routine does not add the *unwanted* '\r'. I
> > > > won't think delphi does that either. Does pgsqlODBC
> > > > do this unwanted conversion?
> > >
> > > Yes. Do people want a new option ?
> >
> > Personally, I don't think I would need it, but it sounds useful (and
> > needed) if there's no other place to store "strange" data. There's also
> > the question of defaults. For Windows it should be the current behavior.
> > For Unix, perhaps the default should be no conversion? (I don't know if
> > it's difficult to set something different for another platform.. perhaps
> > ignore me..?).
>
> It's not difficult to change the behavior between Windows
> and the others. It doesn't seem that difficult to add an
> option to enable/disable <LF> <-> <CR><LF> conversion either.
> The problem is that we have already too many options.
> The more we have options the longer the connection string
> would be. We are already using abbrebiated connection
> strings in psqlodbc driver and don't have many bytes
> to spare for connection strings.
> Well is the option worth adding ?
Ok. I understand the dilemma. In that case, perhaps it would make sense
for it to be a compile time option, with defaults as I mentioned. It
seems most likely to be platform dependent, and probably set only once
anyway. This way the windows driver at least wouldn't change at all
...back to the list. Comments anyone?
-Cedar
