Thread: What to do about errors returned by odbc

This might be a memory issue on 32bit computers.
psqlodbc loads the whole query result into memory by default,
on Windows too.

IIS or Windows might supply memory at most 1-3 gigabytes for the CGI binary.
So the actual upper limit might actually be much less, than 4G.

This can be overcome by using ODBC directives like:

Fetch = 2048
UseDeclareFetch = 1

Regards,
Marko Ristola

Joel Fradkin wrote:

> I am running 8.0.3 database with 7.4 odbc.
>
> I am working on getting my ASCII over to Unicode so I can use the
> newer odbc.
>
> I get on a too often basis the ODBC lock up on the IIS server (I can
> re-boot IIS and see ODBC come back).
>
> The machine is not out of memory (4 gig Dell running win2k, database
> is on a 8 gig redhat box).
>
> Unfortunately I display the error returned from the object and it
> includes the text “Catastrophic Error”.
>
> This has been bad and I need to fix it, but I believe if I understand
> my initial research it is actually an error from MS (either IIS or the
> ODBC layer).
>
> Since it does not appear to be a memory issue (last time I had it
> happen the machine was at 500 meg of 2 gig used by IIS) I am looking
> for ideas as what to look for.
>
> Our application was on MSSQL and did not have errors with the odbc
> (servers were very stable) to MSSQL.
>
> I have us converted and eliminated most of the application type errors
> from the conversion, but the odbc to postgres I think is our issue
> (may be how we have it coded).
>
> I am not using any kind of pooling (not sure if IIS does this on its
> own as I do not see a million connections and we generally have 200+
> concurrent users).
>
> Any ideas I can research would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Joel Fradkin
>
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