Re: SqlGetData problems

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: mmantyla(at)soberit(dot)hut(dot)fi
Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SqlGetData problems
Date: 2001-10-24 23:50:22
Message-ID: 3BD753BE.1C73D096@tpf.co.jp
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Mika M舅tylwrote:
>
> I have discovered two problems with SQLGetData. I have hacked my way
> around these problems, but the fixes are not very elegant ...
>
> 1)
> SqlGetData:
> The target column's type is SQL_LONGVARBINARY (other binary fields might
> do as well), and you try to get them as SQL_C_CHAR. This return the data
> in binary format, instead of ASCII characters as hexadecimal form
> (11111111 -> FF).

I will take care of this but I'm not sure when I could
do it.

>
> 2)
> SqlGetData:
> The target column's type is SQL_DATE or SQL_TIMESTAMP, and you try to
> get them as SQL_C_CHAR. This will cause successive calls to SQLGetData
> to return the same value repeatedly. This results non-ending loop in the
> following code, as value of got is constantly above zero. Note:
> st.GetData is wrapper around SQLGetData.
>
> while( (got=st.GetData( i, buf, sizeof(buf), SQL_C_CHAR ))>0 )
> line.append( buf );
>

This seems easier to fix than fixing 1) and so I would
be able to fix it in the near future.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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