[ psqlodbc-Bugs-1002054 ] SQLSetDescField with SQL_DESC_INDICATOR_PTR has no effect.

Bugs item #1002054, was opened at 2007-02-16 14:30
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody (None)
>Assigned to: Hiroshi Inoue (hinoue)
Summary: SQLSetDescField with SQL_DESC_INDICATOR_PTR has no effect.

Initial Comment:
I discovered this as a side effect of something that seems to have changed. Seemingly, setting SQL_DESC_TYPE clears any information set during SQLBindCol (this is very different behaviour to all other ODBC drivers). Attempting to get around this by subsequently re-setting the indicator pointer seems to have no effect. Looking in pgapi30.c, it seems that this is the case:

break;
case SQL_DESC_DATA_PTR:
opts->bindings[row_idx].buffer = Value;
break;
case SQL_DESC_INDICATOR_PTR:
tptr = opts->bindings[row_idx].used;
if (Value != tptr)
{
ret = SQL_ERROR;
DC_set_error(desc,
DESC_INVALID_DESCRIPTOR_IDENTIFIER, "INDICATOR != OCTET_LENGTH_PTR");
}
break;
case SQL_DESC_OCTET_LENGTH_PTR:
opts->bindings[row_idx].used = Value;
break;
case SQL_DESC_OCTET_LENGTH:
opts->bindings[row_idx].buflen = CAST_PTR(SQLLEN,
Value);
break;
case SQL_DESC_PRECISION:
opts->bindings[row_idx].precision =
CAST_PTR(SQLSMALLINT, Value);

note, unlike all other options, SQL_DESC_INDICATOR_PTR doesn't seem to have any effect.

This all came about trying to determine why SQLFetch was throwing an error on a null data fetch (log file attached), erronously claiming that the strlen_or_ind pointer was null.

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Comment By: Dominic Smith (dominic_smith)
Date: 2008-11-28 11:11

Message:
sorry, looks like I forgot to respond to this. The snapshot DLL corrected this problem for us.

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Comment By: Hiroshi Inoue (hinoue)
Date: 2007-02-17 22:58

Message:
IIRC this bug was fixed in 8.2.0201(2).
Could you try the snapshot dll at
http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/index.html
?

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Comment By: Nobody (None)
Date: 2007-02-16 14:31

Message:
Forgot to mention, this is psqlodbc version 8.02.0200, working against PostgreSQL version 8.2.

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